About The Privacy Clause

The privacy clause

I had already heard about the privacy clause, this clause that tells you not to work for the competence for some time after you leave a company. And the author of the blog was really mad about it(I can understand, it really is a stupid tactic) but what he doesn´t say is that anyway you look at it, companies want to keep their models, their desicions, etc. to themselves, so is it really cool to do it? because there was a time when companies would hire people to go and work in other companies to get internal info. Overall I think the same as everyone, it´s bad for both sides

The solution

I´ve heard in some of my financial classes that what companies are doing now, instead of forcing people to not work somewhere else is that they´re putting a privacy clause, where you can be sued(very heavily sued) if you leak info. From what I understood, the way it works is that when the employee leaves the company, he has some time of vigilance where if they think he has leaked info(because the other company is doing something similar, or something along those lines) they can go to trial.

The thing to understand is that yes, companies care about the employees, but they also want to make money and leaked information may get their trum card overturned.