Are you a contractor? This makes things a lot easier. For salaried employees that kind of agreement is far more common :(
Re:Bossware is a big legal risk
by ChrisMarshallNY on Thursday May 16, 2024 @10:58AM
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No, I was an employee.
However, I worked at a company that employed a ton of photographers, and there is no way that they would be able to get photographers to sign over that kind of authority to the company.
That said, I was there for almost 27 years, and a lot could change, in that time.
By the time I left, their HR was starting to get downright rapacious, so newer employees might have had to sign over those kinds of rights.
Back then, they hadn't really gotten going with all the monitoring stuff, but I did it from a sense of personal integrity.
I was writing open-source stuff, and there was no way that I was going to allow my company to try to claim it. I didn't use company time, and I didn't use company equipment.
I did not have a "shower clause" in my employment contract, so I was free to work on my own stuff, on my own time.