You’ve landed a dream opportunity: a company loves your work, invites you to present at a major industry conference, and promises game-changing exposure—all they need is a week of your time for free. But the moment you ask, "Whose name goes on the final work?", the enthusiasm abruptly cools.

When does working for free open a real door, and when is it just an employer helping themselves to your unpaid labor?

In this episode of Pull Up a Chair, hosts Brandee Blocker Anderson and Haleh Rabizadeh Resnick unpack the ethics and economics of unpaid work. Using their signature IRAC (Issue, Rule, Analysis, Conclusion) analytical framework, they look at both sides of the coin: When is it ethical to ask someone to work for free, and when is it ethical to say yes? ...