Timeline for How to motivate people to participate in a company hackathon?
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| Nov 15, 2015 at 13:56 | comment | added | Tony Ennis | If the employee has a good idea and retains the IP, there's no incentive for the employee to work on it for free as part of a company event. | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 15:13 | comment | added | Dan | I think the IP part of the hackaton would be a minor after thought compared to the idea of having to spend 3 work days building something that would gain very little in return. Even with IP granted to you, I doubt a lot of folks would even participate then. | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 0:23 | comment | added | Charles Duffy | @adeady, but keeping it within the normal workday is not the proposal at hand (this would indeed be compensated time). Yes, company materials, so it's legal under any usual contract -- but that leaves us with the question of employee motivation. | |
| Nov 13, 2015 at 0:19 | comment | added | adeady | @CharlesDuffy, If it is during a normal workday, even if it is not "work" they are paying for it. Also, I am speaking from a salaried point of view, where "on the clock" can become vague. If it is done on their equipment, in their building, and they hosted it, legally the intellectual property belongs to the company. It may suck that your ideas belong to the company, but that's currently how the corporate world works. | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 23:41 | comment | added | Charles Duffy | @adeady, that makes sense if they're paying for the time at the hackathon. If you aren't compensating people for their time, yet you still want ownership of output produced... WTF? | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 23:32 | comment | added | adeady | It is standard in a contract that any ideas the employee has while on the job is the property of the company. That is what they are paying you for as a software developer. So this would not fly. Imagine coming up with a great idea at an internal hackathon, then trying to sell your idea back to your company. Not cool from the employer perspective. | |
| Nov 12, 2015 at 21:03 | comment | added | Sidney | As reasonable as this is from an employees perspective, it really makes no sense for the company to do it. I might suggest bigger and better prizes for changes that make the company money, but it wouldn't make much sense, and probably wouldn't look very good, to have to license a part of the application to an individual, at least not for enterprise level products. | |
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| Nov 12, 2015 at 19:11 | history | answered | Eric Johnson | CC BY-SA 3.0 |