This has happened to me and is one of the big reasons I stopped using these sites.
People who turned to Upwork to find freelance gigs say they’ve lost thousands of dollars to scams
Tag Archives: freelancing
penalizing freelancers etc
It’s a shame states couldn’t develop a system to offer official status to gig/freelancen/contract workers *before* a massive, economy-shattering recession kicked in.
Source: Gig workers and self-employed keep waiting for jobless aid | PBS NewsHour
ephematerial
It’s so important for writers to be saving copies of their work on their own, either by downloading PDFs of stories when they’re published or copying everything to their own blog. You can no longer count on companies to keep them up for any length of time.
Source: Preserving work in a time of vanishing archives – Columbia Journalism Review
