This wouldn't be a widespread practice outside of fields with proprietary data, relationships, or trade secrets, which tend to have better compensation. The cos

This wouldn't be a widespread practice outside of fields with proprietary data, relationships, or trade secrets, which tend to have better compensation. The costs of having a non-working employee on the payroll, even at the $40k-level need to be worth it. It isn't going to be the case for a random grocery store manager or whatever that they are worth the costs.