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> locks you in for 2 years with a client

Can you explain?

I didn’t check the ToC in a while but last time I did if you got a client through Upwork you cannot work with them outside of their platform for two years otherwise you and the client risk a fine.

An empty threat. There’s no way they would know.

The worst that can happen is that they can deplatform you as far as I can tell from the ToCs so I bet some people will do just that if their fees go up at the end of the year.

Not even contract to hire? What kind of fine are we talking about?

“ The Conversion Fee is 13.5% of estimated earnings over a 12-month period in each specific client-freelancer relationship. Learn more”.

It seems they changed it quite a bit since the last time I looked at it. You can find more information about it here: https://support.upwork.com/hc/en-us/articles/360043210654-Co...

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