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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by fishywang on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:28PM (#27456359)
A typical silicone valley company's contract usually have some clause saying that all your creative work while contracted with the company, even on off hours, belongs to the company. So signing two such contracts with two different companies usually means they both own the code you wrote for both companies, or maybe even trickier legal implications.

Of course you can try to get that clause removed during contract negotiation, but I doubt many people would be successful on that negotiation (you might have better luck to exclude some of your open source contributions).

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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by labcomputer on Thursday June 10, 2021 @01:05AM (#27456860)
Every SV company I've ever worked for has explicitly disclaimed rights to my work done off hours with my own equipment... as they are required to do under CA law.
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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by chris11 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @02:42AM (#27457584)
I'm not sure how you can claim all work was done during off hours with ten full-time jobs. If OP got caught he could have some very expensive legal problems.
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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by labcomputer on Monday June 14, 2021 @01:11PM (#27505189)
I was responding to this sentence in the parent:

"A typical silicone valley company's contract usually have some clause saying that all your creative work while contracted with the company, even on off hours, belongs to the company."

My experience, working for a number of silicon valley companies, has been the exact opposite. There is a clause that says (in legalese) "we don't own stuff you do on your own time with your own equipment if it isn't related to what you do at work"

It is my understanding that California public policy actually requires companies to put this disclaimer in work contracts.

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Re:Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees by youeseh on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @11:41PM (#27456426)
Isn't this illegal in California.. you can't sign your rights away.
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