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larsberg on March 28, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: James Gosling joining Google

Many modern, enforceable (even in Cali) non-competes have a clause that provides you full salary/benefits in exchange for not working for any competing firm during that period. Pretty sweet deal for hacking projects you never got around to -- I've seen several folks in finance basically just go dark and hack on the beach for 6mo-1yr before returning to the field.

Nrsolis on March 28, 2011 [–]

The actual term for being paid to "not work" is called "being on the beach."

shrikant on March 28, 2011 | [–]

I've heard the term 'gardening timeout'.

siculars on March 28, 2011 | | [–]

It's called "garden leave" in the UK, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden_leave.

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