RE: Ethics: Charge for mandatory lunch event

["Ehr, Meg" <Meg -dot- Ehr -at- smartworks -dot- com>]

Ken Jacobs, a freelancer, asks about "mandatory" social events:

>Do you charge for the time since you are expected to be there? Does it
matter if the company picks up the tab or not?

If you were a permanent employee, and were expected to attend a social event
on your personal time, what would you do? When I go to a
lunch/dinner/whatever, I'm not being paid for my time, either (we don't have
paid lunch breaks here), and more often than not, I also have to pay my own
way. 

I go to these things for one of two reasons: either I simply want to go, or
I think it will do me more harm than good to decline (or, to phrase it less
cynically, I think I'll gain some benefit by attending). 

I don't think the situation is really any different for contractors -- it's
still balancing the value of your time against the benefit of attending/cost
of skipping the event.

Meg Ehr

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