Also known as garden leave. You're basically still 'employed' but you're kept out of the office with all access revoked. It's to put some distance between any t

Also known as garden leave. You're basically still 'employed' but you're kept out of the office with all access revoked. It's to put some distance between any time sensitive info from one job before you move onto the next. In the UK, I think the banks do this for three months. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave