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Recently I spoke with a colleague who has been unemployed for 6 months after being laid off from a large publicly traded employer. He was an individual contributor engineer, working on implementing new features in a fairly mature piece of software; certainly not a position you could consider in any way as having access to strategic …
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In June I left a company I worked at for 7 years. I was being forced to work as much as 80hrs weekly on salary. I have a wife, two kids, one with special needs. Before leaving and at the urging of certain people, I checked my personnel file to ensure I had nothing in …
Will, I am a Belmont resident and animal lover. I don’t see the point of having two ailing zoos that get by on minimal funding. I have never been to the Franklin or Stone Zoo, but I have read about the funding controversy in the Globe. I have also read a comment posted by another …
Since the BBO symposium a number of interesting exchanges have occurred by e-mail and in the blogosphere. Here are some links and thoughts.
Hi Bill, I’ve recently left a company 6 weeks to the day. They are a contract manufacturer serving the medical device industry. I left to go to a competitor. My situation was such that I was being forced to work 70-80hrs each week on salary. I was being held accountable for being a project manager …
You can find plenty of press coverage about why non-competes ostensibly thwart recruiting top talent to start-ups. What you don’t hear about is how non-competes ultimately help new and established companies alike to retain the talent they’ve invested in, further nurtured and who have become star employees due to their rewarding tenure and success. How can today’s start-ups hope to mature into successful firms if their top performers are easily poached?
