Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering?

Re:Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering? by whatshisface on Monday February 20, 2023 @03:54PM (#34872769)

I think you can find a lot of unreasonable ones out there, but at its core the idea of not taking a company's trade secrets to a competitor is a reasonable thing to agree on. It turns into a bad thing when companies abuse their bargaining power to stop you from working on totally unrelated projects in your personal time, or when they stop people from practicing their profession for a period of time after they part ways with no compensation for lost income.

In industries where they really care about trade secrets but are also dealing with people who know how to negotiate, you see a lot of contracts where you get paid your full salary for say a year to sit at home and do nothing, as compensation for not working for a competitor during that time.

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Re:Ask HN: Where are laid off employees gathering? by moremetadata on Monday February 20, 2023 @06:04PM (#34874108)

> at its core the idea of not taking a company's trade secrets to a competitor is a reasonable thing to agree on

But its ok to pay poor wages and let staff go, using the law as a weapon? Isnt that anti capitalist? Isnt that against the spirit of the law?

>with people who know how to negotiate

Rather the employment is not so one sided, the employee has to take everything dished out to them.

>you see a lot of contracts where you get paid your full salary for say a year to sit at home and do nothing,

You also see people put on gardening leave where the contract contains nothing to handle certain situations.

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