Contractor
The contractor's side
A monitoring requirement is a commercial term, and it can be accepted, negotiated or declined like any other.
Deciding Whether to Accept It
A monitoring requirement is a term of the engagement like any other. What to weigh before agreeing.
What You Are Agreeing To
The specific terms behind a monitoring requirement, which are rarely read and are entirely negotiable before signature.
Other Clients' Data on Your Screen
The obligation nobody mentions: your frames contain material belonging to people who never agreed to be captured.
Your Own Private Material
Your working machine is also your personal one. The separation that keeps it out of frame, and what to do when it fails.
Pricing It In
Monitoring has a cost to the contractor and it belongs in the rate. What it consists of, and how to say so.
Idle Time, Thinking and the Tracked Hour
The measure penalises the work that is worth most, and for a contractor the penalty is financial rather than reputational.
Disputes Over Logged Time
A client queries an invoice or a tracked block. What to do, in order, and what the record actually supports.
When to Walk Away
Some monitoring arrangements should be declined. The signs, and the fact that declining is a normal commercial act.