<story><title>Sweden&apos;s leave of absence system helps workers launch their own business</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190206-swedens-surprising-rule-for-time-off</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjjdjw</author><text>So would you assume you can work 40 hr and trade secrets from your employer as a side hustle, just because it&amp;#x27;s not happening within the work time?</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>When I first learned about this type of contract I couldn’t even believe the concept. How can anybody think it’s ok that a company can claim and kind of ownership over things an employee does in his free time? I have signed up for 40 hours a week and not for being fully owned by the company.&lt;p&gt;What happens if you work another job and invent things there? Do the companies own each other’s stuff?</text></item><item><author>adetrest</author><text>Meanwhile, in the US and Canada, you are forced to sign clauses that gives your employer full ownership of anything you invent ever while employed and you have to ask your ~parents~ employer if you could please do something else on the side. Good for Sweden, these feodal rules are dragging everyone down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>adetrest</author><text>You can do work on the side without disclosing your employers trade secrets, I would hope. There is nothing mysterious about yet another CRUD web application. Besides, confidentiality is covered separately and an NDA can stand on its own.&lt;p&gt;I suspect employers love restricting your right to have a side hustle so that they absolutely totally own you. If you have no other means of income besides your job they can lean on you pretty hard and there isn&amp;#x27;t much you can do about it if you like having a roof over your head.</text></comment>
<story><title>Sweden&apos;s leave of absence system helps workers launch their own business</title><url>http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190206-swedens-surprising-rule-for-time-off</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>wjjdjw</author><text>So would you assume you can work 40 hr and trade secrets from your employer as a side hustle, just because it&amp;#x27;s not happening within the work time?</text></item><item><author>maxxxxx</author><text>When I first learned about this type of contract I couldn’t even believe the concept. How can anybody think it’s ok that a company can claim and kind of ownership over things an employee does in his free time? I have signed up for 40 hours a week and not for being fully owned by the company.&lt;p&gt;What happens if you work another job and invent things there? Do the companies own each other’s stuff?</text></item><item><author>adetrest</author><text>Meanwhile, in the US and Canada, you are forced to sign clauses that gives your employer full ownership of anything you invent ever while employed and you have to ask your ~parents~ employer if you could please do something else on the side. Good for Sweden, these feodal rules are dragging everyone down.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cr1895</author><text>You&amp;#x27;re presumably already bound to confidentiality.</text></comment>