I have got a maintenance&#x2F;service contract with a company. I&#x27;ve basically agreed to work up to 15h&#x2F;month with a 24h response time on any maintenance task (bug fixing, server issues, etc.). Whether I work 15h or less during the month, the amount they pay monthly is fixed.<p>What I&#x27;m wondering is how about months when there&#x27;s almost no work, say there was only 1-2 hours of maintenance to do. The client might be a bit frustrated because they pay me but there&#x27;s not much to do.<p>Do you have any clause in your contract to handle this? I was thinking, for example, if there&#x27;s one hour left or more, it goes to the next month, so there will be 16h next month. Or maybe I do some extra development work at no extra charge. No sure what is the best practice for this, and what would be fair.<p>Any suggestion?
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