[dh2022]

Gardening leave leaves (pun intended :)) the possibility for the employee to leave with highly valuable acquired knowledge (trading strategies, algorightms, etc...) for a much higher salary and bonus than the gardening leave provides. Or maybe I am mis-understanding how gardening leave works? Thanks!

[tomp]

"Gardening leave" just means that during your notice period (or part of your notice period), you're not "working" in the sense of going to the office, but instead you're home ("tending your garden"). The idea is that during that time, you're not gaining new knowledge / IP, so by the time you actually start working your knowledge is several months out of date.