[ SECRET POST #2899 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2899 ⌋

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Comments

[replicantangel]

Mostly it's for people who are being paid to think - it makes sense the company wants to keep the ideas of their people that they hired to do just that. An engineer at GE, for example, might be getting paid to make more efficient refrigeration. If he's at work or at home in the shower when inspiration strikes, that's his job, and they want the fruits of that. Otherwise, any employee could say "no, I thought of this in the shower at home" and run off and create a refrigeration company with the new idea and directly compete with GE. Obviously, they don't want that.

If you're a janitor at GE and you come up with a new way to do refrigeration, that's far less likely to be a problem if you leave GE and create that new company. That wasn't your job, and it's probably not even in your contract. Better be prepared to prove you didn't use company resources though (like looking at the big boards engineers use to spitball their ideas). Lengthy court battles have been fought over such things, but generally, the ideas the company keeps have to be relevant to their job. It makes sense really, or people would be screwing over their employers in order to compete with them all the time with the excuse that they thought of the idea at home.