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Aside from them trying to call Levandowski a casualty of two large companies competing.... Has any field done a good job of balancing the tension of letting em
by chollida1 9y ago
Aside from them trying to call Levandowski a casualty of two large companies competing....
Has any field done a good job of balancing the tension of letting employee's be able to freely move and the employer's ability to protect IP from moving to a competitor?
I only really know the finance and software fields well and there its very acceptable for an employee to leave for a competitor, however the line starts to get very murky when the employee starts recruiting other employee's to their new employer.
Typically there is a garden leave involved where the employee gets paid but can't compete with his/her former employer and can't recruit from them for the same period. Other than that, quant's often walk out the door with their models, while programmers can't leave with their source code, open source aside.
How does, say the drug industry, handle top scientist switching companies, or does this not happen as often due to the large time required to produce drugs?
- krisdol 9y ago>I only really know the finance and software fields well and there its very acceptable for an employee to leave for a competitor Maybe in California. Non-competes are a reality pretty much everywhere else.
- ghaff 9y agoPeople leave for competitors all the time in many states. It's the norm rather than the exception. The exceptions usually involve high-level people taking a similar position with a direct competitor. (There are also some specific professional services-type organizations that take a hard line. The thinking there is mostly that they'll take clients with them even if they don't actively solicit.)
- circlefavshape 9y agoEverywhere? /me raises one eyebrow
- gaius 9y agoGardening leave is the fair way to do this - say 12 months.
- claytonjy 9y ago> quant's often walk out the door with their models Do you mean they leave with the knowledge of the models they worked on (impossible to leave behind), or they take something more concrete?