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Why Recruiting Isn’t Over When an Employee Accepts Your Offer

• greenyoda 12y ago
  "I also like to give some evening homework to the new employees. To the extent she starts problem solving on your behalf and working as part of your team she will feel more commitment to you, more excitement about the new role and, again, a stronger emotional bond to not backing out." Requiring a person to do work for you before they're actually on your payroll would seem to be a violation of federal and/or state minimum wage laws - since you're paying them nothing for their time. (Remember that the article is talking about a person who has accepted a job offer but is still presumably working for their previous employer, to whom they've just given notice that they're going to leave in some number of weeks.) If I were in that employee's position, being asked to work for free in the evening would be a big red warning flag that would make me more likely to accept a counteroffer from my current employer or a competing offer. And I'd also refuse the "homework assignment". Accepting it would send a clear message that I'm open to being manipulated and exploited.