For gig buyers, there is no difference in the analysis that must be made if talent is procured via a traditional staffing firm, or if the worker is an independent contractor, or if the buyer never even sees the worker because they work via the cloud remotely from home, writes Subadhra Sriram, Staffing Industry Analysts’ editor and publisher, media products, in a new The Staffing Stream blog post. Regardless, the client may very well be responsible and liable on a co-employment basis. In this — and every other aspect of the legal environment around the gig economy — the buyer’s best defense is to stay informed. Denis S. Kenny, principal, Scherer Smith & Kenny LLP, and Eric Rumbaugh, partner, Michael, Best and Friedrich LLP, joined SIA legal expert Fiona Coombe to address co-employment myths at the Collaboration in the Gig Economy conference in Las Vegas.