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just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
The problem with most of these ideas is that they would violate a large majority of developers’ employment contracts. A lot of companies have overly restrictive contracts that prevent employees from freely creating other work without the possibility of legal retribution if found out.
Obviously, check your contracts for these conditions and their enforceability in your locale (some people are forced to sign these in the US but they are not enforceable in most places).
zigxBenx@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I know these contracts exist, and honestly, I don’t get why companies would want to limit their employees’ growth. But I get that some people have restrictions.
That said, applying to better jobs and negotiating better conditions is never forbidden. Freelancing full-time? No contract can stop you from that. Side projects? As long as you’re not stealing company data, it should be fair game.
Good point, though—this is definitely a topic worth covering in the course! 😉
just_another_person@lemmy.world 1 week ago
That’s why I qualified my comment with “most”.
Corporations gonna corporate so that’s why they don’t want their employees freelancing. Amazon, for example, has contracts that say they own all code created by engineers during their employment, so if one WAS going to freelance, Amazon could lay claim to any work they created, causing immense problems for the engineer. Now, whether or not and where those contracts are enforceable is another question.