Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access independent seller data

Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by Xixi on Thursday July 30, 2020 @02:37AM (#23995309)

In France the standard notice for engineers is three months, and goes both way. It's not unheard of for a corporation to pay the three months notice when firing someone, without the employee actually coming in anymore, precisely to avoid theft, or the moral hazard towards other employees.

But what's the rational the other way around? When an employee resigns, they obviously know that they are resigning before actually handling in their resignation. If they wanted to leave with something, surely they would have already stolen it? Or it's just an expectation of lazyness, in case nothing has been stolen yet?

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Re:Jeff Bezos can’t promise Amazon employees don’t access in... by lb1lf on Thursday July 30, 2020 @06:24AM (#23996496)

It is basically CYA.

If the employee should later indeed be found to have taken IP or other assets during their last weeks at work, it would reflect poorly on whomever decided they should work during the resignation period.

Hence, you let them go immediately, so you can shrug and say 'well, we did what we could' in case of problems down the road.

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