AI Rivalry: Google Paying Employees for up to 12-Month To Not Join Competitors by Making Them Sign Noncomplete Agreements, Say Reports
Google is reportedly paying employees for up to 12 months under noncompete agreements to prevent them from joining rival AI companies amid growing AI rivalry.
San Francisco, April 8:슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Amid the rising슬롯 머신 사이트 추천AI competition, Google has reportedly adopted a new strategy: paying the staff not to work in슬롯 머신 사이트 추천the company but to stop them from joining from joining the rivals. The staff continues to get paid for 12 months as a part of noncompete슬롯 머신 사이트 추천agreements but cannot join the rivals.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Some employees슬롯 머신 사이트 추천reportedly get some extended garden leaves.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천
According to reports, Google DeepMind started paying the staff a one-year paid break so that they would not join competitors in the UK. These staff are subject to noncompete agreements, and they cannot officially join other companies for a year, but they get paid by Google. DeepMind reportedly said슬롯 머신 사이트 추천that it슬롯 머신 사이트 추천considered various factors related to such a strategy.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Fannie Mae Layoffs: US-Based Federal National Mortgage Association Lays Off 200 Telugu Employees for Misuse of 슬롯사이트˜Matching Grants Programme슬롯사이트�, Total 700 Affected.
Nando de Freitas's Post on X About Google DeepMind Noncomplete Agreement
Google DeepMind considered the seniority of the employees and the criticality of their work to identify슬롯 머신 사이트 추천the length of the noncompete clauses. Despite this being beneficial to the staff, they feel left off슬롯 머신 사이트 추천amid AI development and progress in the world.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천
A Google DeepMind employee, Nando de Freitas, posted on the social media platform X, highlighting how to escape the noncompetes and notice periods. He said, "Also, you are asking me for a job because your manager has explained this is the way to get promoted, but I digress."
He said not to reach out to him but instead슬롯 머신 사이트 추천talk to each other and that the슬롯 머신 사이트 추천division's leads were responsible. He tagged슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Koray Kavukcuoglu, VP of Research and Technology at Google DeepMind, and슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Douglas Eck, Google DeepMind lead and recovering faculty member, who wrote that these senior employees슬롯 머신 사이트 추천allegedly told him they were against it.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천
Nando de Freitas encouraged others not to sign such noncomplete agreements, saying, "Above all don't sign these contracts. No American corporation should have that much power, especially in Europe. It's abuse of power, which does not justify any end."슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Yes Bank Layoffs: Indian Private Bank Restructures Its Business To Simplify Operations and Improve Profit, Lays Off Senior Management Team.
Whether it is슬롯 머신 사이트 추천Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, xAI, Perplexity AI, Anthropic or any other artificial슬롯 머신 사이트 추천intelligence company, they all have faced the issue of employees joining rivals for better opportunities.슬롯 머신 사이트 추천
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