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Despite recent apologies and reassurances, documents leaked to Vox show OpenAI pressured departing employees over equity
’s turbulent month continues, with a series of stories highlighting how the company has pressured departing employees over tech’s most precious commodity: stock. A Vox story on Saturday said the company could take back vested equity if departing employees did not sign a non-disparagement agreement.
OpenAI’s turbulent month continues, with a series of stories highlighting how the company has pressured departing employees over tech’s most precious commodity: stock. “For a company to threaten to claw back already-vested equity is egregious and unusual,” California employment law attorney Chambord Benton-Hayes told Vox. The document, in Vox reporter Kelsey Piper’s words, “contains multiple passages with language that gives the private company near-arbitrary authority to claw back equity from former employees or — just as importantly — block them from selling it.”
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