[Raj123123]

Summary: work on things you can later show off

I think this is great oversimplification of the real world and see 2 problems: 1) There are many jobs that simply do not allow the inner secrets or secret sauce to be made public. Even a supposedly open company such as Google does not publish the exact formula for its biggest secret sauce (search ranking). Sure the PageRanking patent formula is public, but this only gets one so far - the actual ranking is much more complex and involves many more factors - otherwise SEO would have been automated long ago. 2) How long until companies recognize that employees are leveraging publication of their work and thereby work to stop it (e.g. enforce policies). Many corporations readily recognize that a large problem is turnover and spend significant amounts to try to prevent it and then hire new employees - what is to stop them from creating and enforcing policies to prevent employees from all external publications?

[jimbokun]

That's a huge impetus for increasing turnover. All your employees talented enough to publish something worthwhile will leave as soon as they get another decent offer somewhere allowing them a little more recognition.

[Raj123123]

strict policy of not publishing anything related to your employment.

Keep the employees busy filing useless internal TPS reports

[infinite8s]

You aren't going to keep any of your good employees that way.

[rmc]

If companies are worried about high turnover, they should try the carrot, and not only the stick