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They are not allowed to communicate with other employees and are told to report such occurences. Screams exploitation to me.
by guard-of-terra 16y ago
They are not allowed to communicate with other employees and are told to report such occurences.
Screams exploitation to me.
- learc83 16y agoNo, it screams these employees are working on something confidential. Google keeps them from socializing with everyone else in order to keep them from talking about their work.
- latch 16y agoIANAL. I'll grant you that this is sketchy. Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act protects employees from engaging in concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection. In the US you can't stop person A from talking to person B if the purpose is to make your job better (better benefits/working conditions/almost anything). IANAL (again)..but, yes, if they aren't allowed to talk to other employees about non-NDA stuff, I agree that maybe a line is slightly being crossed.
- codeographer 16y agoWe understand you're not a lawyer. (Thanks)
- paulrademacher 16y agoNo one was forbidden from communicating with other employees. In this case, it seems what happened was the woman correctly decided that the situation was unusual (some guy you don't know asking all kinds of questions about your work), and should be checked out by management.