Timeline for Is Screenshot Time-tracking Common?
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| Feb 22, 2019 at 20:28 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | @SteveJessop The client can install the spyware shortly after buying the device. The freelancer gets to remove bloatware, download, install, and configure all of their stuff such as: an FTP client, an IDE, Android Studio, Photoshop, Putty, Chrome, etc... In the case of Photoshop the client would have to provide the license. | |
| Feb 22, 2019 at 0:26 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @R. The only difficult part is, how do you verify you worked the hours you're billing them for setting up the isolated device with the spyware? ;-) Seriously, though, just saying "my charge for setting up a system you can spy on is $10k" maybe could be more effective than just saying "no", because then it looks like they're declining the cost rather than you're declining the condition. Plus I guess you can set that system up so you genuinely do clock out every time you move away from it, and hence be absolutely sure you aren't billing them while you're reading some other client's email. | |
| Feb 21, 2019 at 22:40 | comment | added | Frank Hopkins | @MonkeyZeus And if I'd take that work at all, I'd add at least a 2x cost factor for feeling spied on and put under due stress to suppress the wish to circumvent their security nonsense. (If you have something truly security relevant, you develop it in-house on controlled hardware in a controlled environment). | |
| Feb 20, 2019 at 23:51 | comment | added | R.. GitHub STOP HELPING ICE | What @MonkeyZeus said. If the freelancer is going to do this for the client, all the costs of doing so must be built into the price the client is paying. And there are a lot of costs. | |
| Feb 20, 2019 at 22:59 | comment | added | Peteris | @MonkeyZeus it's a matter of convention whether that burden is reasonable or not, and that depends on the industry, and also on the field of your customers. For example, I'd expect that in web development the requirement to have an isolated device would be unreasonable, but in network penetration testing a similar requirement would be table stakes; the generally accepted "standard practices" are different there for obvious practical reasons. See also companies with strict "anti-BYOD" policies where contractors can work only on company systems. Of course, that hassle and time would be billable. | |
| Feb 20, 2019 at 18:06 | comment | added | MonkeyZeus | While I agree with the general premise of setting up a dedicated device I cannot upvote your answer because you suggest that burden should be placed on the freelancer; I am almost inclined to downvote it. I would have the client pay for the device and pay me hourly for all of the wasted hours of getting myself set up to work on their company device. | |
| Feb 20, 2019 at 11:59 | history | edited | Peteris | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 20, 2019 at 10:03 | history | answered | Peteris | CC BY-SA 4.0 |