If hard work was rewarded, the richest people in the world would be African miners, Chinese manufacturing workers, and Indian telemarketers.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nothing like informing your employees that hard work won’t be rewarded. Wise business decision
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Tja@programming.dev 10 months ago
Next step: no more free coffee in the office.
GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They tried that years ago in Australia - it didn’t last long.
ryathal@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
That’s one of the fastest ways to lose the top 20% of your workforce.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
I’m not defending this, but this is an extremely common practice in the US.
jaybone@lemmy.world 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago
It also extends to other fields.
Disney has this rule on all artistic creations of it’s employees