Fruits of Work is an academical project, a non-profit digital platform and a tool dedicated to reduce secrecy around pay information and by that tackling labour exploitation and pay discrimination with a focus on the creative industries.

We consider secrecy around wages and salaries as a tool of oppression. Most places of employment work hard to keep information on wages opaque, as they can’t always justify existing differences. As talking frankly about money can be difficult, Fruits of Work offers a completely anonymous way to share just as much information you feel comfortable with. 

Fruits of Work was massively inspired and informed by a number of Google Spreadsheets dedicated to the same issue, especially “Graphic Design Salary Transparency”. Fruits of Work should be understood as a more elaborated version of said spreadsheets. As an independent platform Fruits of Work does not rely on a third party environment like Google. The form that populates our database is developed as a tailor-fitted solution to make it more comfortable to enter data that is optimized for evaluation and comparison. The spreadsheet view is still available and our custom solution further offers more graspable and discoverable ways of data visualization. Furthermore the database of Fruits of Work is not only fed by its form submissions, but also aims at integrating different kinds of preexisting data, like various Google Spreadsheets and surveys concerned with pay information.

Fruits of Work aims at becoming a go-to resource regarding wage and salary information that offers beneficial insights for workers of all kinds. The platform wants to empower individuals to fight for fair compensation and against labour exploitation and pay discrimination. While the collected data will by no means be a perfect overview of the industry, it’s our belief that eliminating salary speculation is one vital step in moving towards a fairer and more inclusive work environment. 

Fruits of Work is an academic project in development by Jens Schnitzler since 2020 at HFBK Hamburg (University of Fine Arts Hamburg) to research working conditions especially in the field of graphic design and neighboring disciplines. Jens studied at FH Münster and HAW Hamburg before entering HFBK’s MFA program in the Digitale Grafik class of Konrad Renner and Christoph Knoth. Working in graphic design since 2014 and in coding since 2018, he gathered experiences in these fields through different forms of employment. Over time and through the personal exchange with colleagues, the necessity of further consideration of contemporary labour relationships became more and more evident.

This website is a private, non-commerical project for educational purposes. The author reserves the right not to be responsible for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected. The database is not for sale, to let or to give away or similar! Requests of this kind are ignored.

Concept, Design, Development: Jens Schnitzler

CMS: Kirby

Typefaces: Review by Berton Hasebe (Commercial Type)

Disclaimer: Despite careful control of the content, we do not assume any liability for the content of external links. The operators of the linked pages are solely responsible for their content. The author is not responsible for any content linked or referred to from his pages. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages.

Copyright information: The content of these web pages is protected by copyright. All illustrations and photographic images on the website may not be copied, reproduced or distributed without permission.

Data Collection

This website neither uses cookies nor does it collect personal data without the user's consent. Only data submitted through the pay data submission form is collected and stored anonymously for an unlimited amount of time. Because of its anonymity submitted data cannot be deleted or altered on request. All collected data is only used for the purpose it was collected for. In this sense all user submitted data is made public through this website.

Privacy Policy

Last updated: May 26, 2021

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

• Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

• Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to the Fruits of Work website or its authors.

• Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

• Country refers to: Berlin, Germany

• Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.

• Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

• Service refers to the Website.

• Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.

• Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

• Website refers to the Fruits of Work website, accessible from fruitsof.work

• You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City

• Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Use of Your Personal Data

This webiste may use Personal Data for providing and maintaining our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service. There is no Personal Data collected to contact you, provide you any personal services, manage requests or for any other purposes.

We publicize anonymized data through this website, but we do not actively share any information with any other service providers or businesses.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation

• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company

• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public

• Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.

If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.

We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.