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I don't know about other countries, but here in Brazil I often hear about the opposite being done, but against common employees. What happen is that, usually,
by gchamonlive 5y ago
I don't know about other countries, but here in Brazil I often hear about the opposite being done, but against common employees.
What happen is that, usually, the employee is not satisfied with the work, pay or just wants to change job descriptions and start applying to interesting positions. If the company advertising the position has any sort of relationship with the current company the employee is working at, it will notify the employee superiors causing serious repercussions internally. Note that none of this is described in any non-compete clauses. Those are unspoken pacts between companies.
I think companies believe that making their lives miserable in the process will reduce the resigning rate, but it only creates a culture of distrust. Because the alternative, making employees lives better, paying better salaries and implementing quality of life programs takes effort and costs money in the short run.
In the long run however, I believe everybody would benefit from a culture of cooperation, not only executives.
- tester34 5y agoWhy would company B tell company A that person from company A applied to them and make him/her kinda less likely to join e.g by company A offering salary raise or smth? it makes no sense
- michael1999 5y agoClass identity and broad social ties can be much stronger than an individual's ties to any single corporation.
- praptak 5y agoCompany A reciprocates, so wages are being kept down. Not that different from https://www.engadget.com/2014-02-19-apple-google-and-other-tech-companies-made-a-secret-pact-to-ke.html https://www.engadget.com/2014-02-19-apple-google-and-other-t...
- Threeve303 5y agoThis situation can lead to even more negative impacts on the employee down the line as a company can use your employment verification step to confidentially say anything they want about you. Employers have entirely too much power over your reputation and career even when you are long gone.
- buran77 5y agoQuid pro quo strongly tied to the balance of power. Tiny Co. will probably not only refuse to hire people coming from Huge Co. but may may go the extra step and give Huge Co. a heads up in an attempt to gain favors with them. Plenty or such small companies got burned by getting on the wrong side of much larger companies, and ended up crippled by being denied contracts, or having their best people poached. The rest is the classic collusion between companies who see no reason to compete over people because this only drives salaries higher and raises payroll costs.