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British artificial intelligence researchers and venture capitalists are calling on the government to make mandatory garden leave optional for employees. The proposal aims to prevent American technology companies from blocking the launch of domestic startups and the hiring of talent for up to a year, a restriction that does not exist for employees in California.
Google DeepMind imposes one year of garden leave for senior researchers and six months for junior staff, requiring some contracts to be signed at the time of promotion rather than hire. Nobel laureate John Jumper, a co creator of AlphaFold, is serving a one year leave before starting a new venture.
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- SOURCE@nandodf“forced people to sign these contracts at the time of promotion, not the time of hiring”x.com
- SUPPORT@nandodf“prevents you from eg signing an NDA with another company - so you can’t for example engage with many chip companies”x.com
- SUPPORT@nandodf“embracing these noncompete measures creates bureaucracy within the organisation, inefficiency, power trips”x.com
- SUPPORT@nandodf“John Jumper, Nobel prize winning co-creator of AlphaFold has to serve a one-year gardening leave stint before he starts”x.com
- SUPPORT@nandodf“strengthening their use of other restrictive covenants, confidentiality clauses and intellectual property protections”x.com