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Isn’t it against your contract with upwork to move off the platform with a client?
by dangero 8y ago
Isn’t it against your contract with upwork to move off the platform with a client?
- jsi 8y agoUpwork makes you jump through code challenge hoops and competes you against people in countries where $1/hr is kingly. Doesn't exactly engender loyalty.
- dabockster 8y agoWait, Upwork gives you a preemptive code challenge just for you to promote your business (since self-employment is a business)? Ewwwwwwwwww!
- konschubert 8y agoFrom another perspective, upwork gives people in low-incinr countries a chance to work for companies in high-income countries without winning a lottery and leaving their families behind. Therefore upwork directly improves equality of opportunity in the world.
- jsi 8y agoIt's more expensive to live in a society with rule of law and basic services. But that doesn't mean we should encourage the alternative. I can only hope the transfer of wealth accomplishes some greater flourishing of human rights across the world as well.
- skj 8y ago1) who cares? And, 2) what could they possibly go about it?
- econochoice 8y agoBan you from the platform, which is what they do often. According to them, they own the relationship between you and your client.
- Strom 8y agoUpwork terms of service require you to funnel funds through them for 2 years, then you are free to move elsewhere. Upwork also allows for early leaving if you pay a fee of $3500 or some other number based on crazy calculations. https://www.upwork.com/legal#noncircumvention https://www.upwork.com/legal#noncircumvention