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The big danger is the company siezing rights to any of the products the engineer made on company time, especially if they turn out to be worth a lot. It's one o
by ivanbakel 9y ago
The big danger is the company siezing rights to any of the products the engineer made on company time, especially if they turn out to be worth a lot. It's one of the main reasons I wouldn't like to do this kind of stuff on the job.
- ubersoldat2k7 9y agoOr with corp. equipment. Thanks Silicon valley for that.
- ryandrake 9y agoYou might be assuming the employee's side project was writing software using company equipment. I don't think the asker specified that. I used to work with a guy who sold expensive watches as a side-job. He kept some inventory locked in his desk at work, and managed his hundreds of eBay auctions from his workstation. I doubt his employer would have been able to claim any IP there. On a side note, I'd guess the watches probably made him 2X what he was making at work. He was a great guy and I think he ultimately ended up doing the watch thing full-time, so good for him!
- jjeaff 9y agoI would like to see the details of how some of these cases have gone done. "company time" is a very fluid concept if you are being asked to stay late and deal with issues in the middle of the night on a regular basis during your "personal time" without offering overtime pay (that's illigal btw) which is something very common in startup culture.