Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired
by postfuturist on Thursday November 10, 2011 @11:47PM
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"At-will" means that either both the employer and employee can break it off at any time. It's the maximum freedom for everyone involved. No company is compelled to hire anyone, why should they be compelled to continue employing someone indefinitely?
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Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired
by alastairpat on Friday November 11, 2011 @12:25AM
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It's a compelling argument, but if there wasn't "at-will" firing, this sort of underhanded "give us our shares back or we'll fire you" stuff that Zynga is purportedly doing couldn't happen without nasty court cases.
Re:Zynga to employees: Give back our stock or you'll be fired
by nknight on Friday November 11, 2011 @04:54PM
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Notice how you say "maximum freedom for everyone involved", and then "no company is compelled to hire anyone". The cultural disconnect lies right there.
Corporate personhood is a funny artifact of English Common Law, and its present state in the US is almost unique. Much of the world views corporations rather differently than our (I'm assuming you're American) legal system does.
When you start from the premise that a corporation is an artificial construct that exists at the whim of, for the purposes intended by, and for the general good of, society as expressed through laws, including a corporation in words like "everyone", and speaking of its "freedom", becomes nonsensical.