helloworld7Microsoft Bans Employees From Using DeepSeek App
Correct me if I’m wrong here but a company can’t dictate what you do on your own time on your own hardware, so I assume this simply affects work computers. Assuming thats the case I don’t really see a problem here. I’ve never been able to download any applications at all on any work computer I’ve ever used short of apps the company itself uses.
Seems completely understandable to me to bar employees from using a competing service especially if there are genuine security concerns.
paraphrandEver heard about software devs not being able to work on personal projects because all the code they produce, even off the clock is owned by their employer?
No, that’s a dystopian scenario.
Sadly, it’s not uncommon from what I understand.
Canadian software developer here,
It’s really not. Contracts like that in Canada and US haven’t been used widely in a long time.
Salaried american software developer here. While some large companies have moonlighting carve outs, by and large the rights to any of your work done outside working hours is at the employer’s discretion.
My understanding is clauses that own work made outside of work (hours, resources, nonncompeteing scope, ect…) is not enforceable.
But if you do anything related to the company, then it’s theirs.
Ah, that sounds correct to me.
My interpretation is probably distorted by having worked at big companies that have arms in basically every part of software development so there is no side project programming that is “out of scope” there.
But working at a company with a narrower focus would let you moonlight more freely.