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This site is dedicated to the concerns of isolated workers worldwide

 If you work from home, are self-employed, freelance or an independent contractor you may feel isolated in your work. You may have concerns about your legal rights, health and safety or simply feel isolated from the usual social warmth enjoyed by those in the permanent employment in a centralised workplace.

 Your situation is the future of the workplace.

 By ending your isolation wants to influence the future of work
as it is changed by the new technologies.

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  will open up the situation of the isolated worker, by contributions from lawyers, journalists and isolated workers themselves.

 By using the power of the new technologies we want to establish a global network to lobby for the rights of the isolated worker.

 If this is your first visit follow this path to discover the background to and the new workplace.

 This path will take you to a directory of the contents of the site.

 Articles discussing the problems of the isolated worker and how we can move to end the isolation. First we will identify some of those problems and analyse the background.

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 As gains momentum we are going to work towards developing a best practice contract for freelances and independent contractors.

 We are going to throw into the ring our collective positive experiences so that next time you have to decide what you want from a piece of work you don't have to feel disempowered by your isolation.
But we need also to share our worst (and best) experiences, so we can develop strategies to counteract the negative side of being a freelance or independent contractor.

  to share your own concerns.

  As a start, you are invited to send extracts from your own contracts. What are the worst clauses you have felt forced to sign up to, just to secure the job? As progresses towards the best practice model contract we will attempt to answer your worst fears first. A sound psychological principle.

 Send your contract nightmares to mail@criticalpath.co.uk

 We won't publish any personal details you wish withheld - as our articles suggest, the vindictive employer is not an unknown phenomenon. But we have to start talking to one another....next...
 




 


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 we want to break the isolation