Wednesday 17 June 2009

another day... another 50c...


As a friend of mine used to say... we drive to work (today in 32 degrees), spend all day typing and then back where we came from. I was faced with an interesting predicament regarding work yesterday and I was called upon to answer a simple (seemingly) question: who owns our work?? Very interesting indeed considering that we produce copious amounts of output on a daily basis and very few of us actually sign it in any way. Apart from the legal aspects of it, which i know very little about anyway, there should be a moral implication behind the ownership of our work. Clients want to own it, we want rights to it and this "thing" which we call work is starting to become more and more complex. My friend is trying to navigate through a series of legalistic and customer-service maneuvers in order to ensure what should come her way naturally: fair compensation for her input. Just something to think about in these troubled times...

1 comment:

  1. Very well put!
    Another "hot" issue that makes people crazy lately: more work with same(or some times less) salary and continuing threat of loosing your job, both due to... crisis of course.

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