[vidarh]

It is not that common in Norway. It has at least been argued in the past that working your notice period is not just an obligation to employer if they want to enforce it, but a right for the employee on the basis that being walked out can affect your reputation by implying possible misconduct exactly because it has generally been uncommon in Norway.

I haven't worked in Norway for a long time, so haven't kept up to date on the current legal position. The typical argument used to be that if there were concerns over IP theft or sabotage, there were other ways of protecting against that - and indeed, insider risk is something companies need to deal with whether or not someone has been fired.

[joe_mamba]

> working your notice period is not just an obligation to employer if they want to enforce it

And what if they don't want to enforce it? Which is what I was talking about.

[vidarh]

Garden leave isn't for when you don't want to force people to work out their leave, but when you want to force them not to, and as the very next clause of my comment pointed out ("but a right for the employee"), it's not a given you can just do that in Norway. Most of the time, employees will be happy to be told they don't need to show up. Sometimes they aren't. There have been lawsuits over attempts to force people on garden leave in Norway.