If hard work was rewarded, the richest people in the world would be African miners, Chinese manufacturing workers, and Indian telemarketers.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Nothing like informing your employees that hard work won’t be rewarded. Wise business decision
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Tja@programming.dev 8 months ago
Next step: no more free coffee in the office.
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 8 months ago
They tried that years ago in Australia - it didn’t last long.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
That’s one of the fastest ways to lose the top 20% of your workforce.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It’s even more insane when you find out that IBM has a history of forcing their employees to sign contracts that state that anything that their employees work on at home in their own free time is the property of IBM
Alchalide@lemmy.world 8 months ago
A company where I applied wanted me to do that as well. I was going to be a truck driver…
jawa21@startrek.website 8 months ago
I’m not defending this, but this is an extremely common practice in the US.
jaybone@lemmy.world 8 months ago
No it’s not.
If this were such a common practice there would hardly be any US contributors to open source projects.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 8 months ago
The legal practice is common. Enforcement is significantly more challenging (particularly when you’re working under an online alias in a niche space).
andrew@lemmy.stuart.fun 8 months ago
IP assignment is extremely common, but there are almost always exceptions that you still own the IP if it’s your own time, your own equipment, and not directly related to what you do for your employer.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 8 months ago
It also extends to other fields.
Disney has this rule on all artistic creations of it’s employees