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by boldpanda 4464 days ago
I don't think we should pile on these tech execs. It happens elsewhere. I'd speculate it's rather widespread.

I worked for a Fortune 500 market research / consumer data company and I know for a fact that the Senior VP of our office would call Fortune 500 clients and kindly request they not "poach" our employees.

Most of it is done casually and "innocently". I doubt most execs even thought they were breaking the law before this came to light.

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Add up the cost to salaried employees. It's a multi-billion dollar crime.
> It happens elsewhere. I'd speculate it's rather widespread.

Does that make it ok?