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The hiring in itself is technically okay but if you do it too much - which is what I implied by wholesale - it makes it hard to defend against allegations that
by StopDisinfo910 1y ago
The hiring in itself is technically okay but if you do it too much - which is what I implied by wholesale - it makes it hard to defend against allegations that you are not misappropriating trade secrets which is illegal. That’s part of the dispute between Apple and Masimo.
- wat10000 1y agoIn other words, it’s not at all illegal for another company to come in and hire all of a company’s employees. It is illegal to steal trade secrets.
- StopDisinfo910 1y agoAggressively hiring all of a company’s employees will get you condemned for stealing trade secrets so, in other worlds, it’s de facto illegal.
- wat10000 1y agoI don’t believe you.
- StopDisinfo910 1y agoYou don’t have to believe me. You can do a quick search on the jurisprudence surrounding trade secrets and employee poaching. There are plenty of cases in high value industries - mostly banking and software. If a company lift a whole team in a short span of time, it gets really hard to argue there is no misappropriation.
- wat10000 1y agoAre there any examples where mass “poaching” was the only evidence? I found plenty of examples where it was part of what happened, but they all have other evidence of theft of trade secrets or whatever else the lawbreaking behavior was.