I find the "lock out and leave immediately" thing to be pretty weird, and perhaps US-specific. But! The Nordic approach is also bizarre! The norm is that emplo

I find the "lock out and leave immediately" thing to be pretty weird, and perhaps US-specific. But! The Nordic approach is also bizarre! The norm is that employees keep working for 3 months after giving notice. There are, of course, plenty of exceptions. The "normal exception" is that if someone quits and the business thinks they are going to go to a competitor, they'll leave the premises within a few days, but continue as a paid employee for the remainder of the time -- known as "garden leave." In either case, though, the employee doesn't start working at their new job for three months!! In my experience, it's super-stifling, especially for startups, since three months is an eternity for a new company. Of course, in the tech industry, nobody really does all that much work for at least the trailing two months, since who's going to get assigned to a new project just before they leave? I guess this is perhaps sorta how things play out in areas of the US that allow noncompetes to be enforced, too.