Timeline for Salvaging senior engineer who's planning projects by how good they look on his resume/CV
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| Jul 28, 2020 at 9:26 | comment | added | Keith Loughnane | "work, done outside of work, is not owned by the company" I don't think you can definitively say this. It's quite usual for contracts to claim ownership of any work done while employed. Without looking at the contract it's impossible to say. And now that that code which the company possibly owns is now under some kind of gpl license makes this whole thing a legal mess. Anyway the answer goes too far in saying the company is not entitled to the code their employee wrote. In most cases they would be. | |
| Jul 27, 2020 at 22:41 | comment | added | Donald | The author incorrectly claims the ownership status would be different if the employees worked overtime. The company owns their work product while they performed their duties during their normal work week or outside of it by being paid overtime. What is true is the work, done outside of work, is not owned by the company but that would be true regardless of the situation. Furthermore, it sounds like the company expects overtime as a normal thing, and then oddly decided not to pay bonuses. It’s not clear if this was paid or unpaid overtime though. | |
| Jul 27, 2020 at 19:10 | comment | added | seventyeightist | I've got to disagree on this part: "we no longer have exclusive ownership of code employees would write as part of overtime to advance within the company" / "What makes you think you are entitled to what people do outside of work hours? If you don't pay overtime, you are entitled to NOTHING." I think this depends on culture, locale and whether they are salaried exempt (which I assume they are) in which there isn't really "overtime" in terms of number of specific hours but more like working a 50-hor week vs 40 (or whatever). As such if they're working on company projects the company owns that. | |
| Jul 27, 2020 at 16:20 | history | answered | Hilmar | CC BY-SA 4.0 |