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Nothing like informing your employees that hard work won’t be rewarded. Wise business decision
It's even more insane when you find out that IBM has a history of forcing their employees to sign contracts that state that anything that their employees work on at home in their own free time, is the property of IBM
I'm not defending this, but this is an extremely common practice in the US.
No it’s not.
If this were such a common practice there would hardly be any US contributors to open source projects.
The legal practice is common. Enforcement is significantly more challenging (particularly when you're working under an online alias in a niche space).
IP assignment is extremely common, but there are almost always exceptions that you still own the IP if it's your own time, your own equipment, and not directly related to what you do for your employer.
It also extends to other fields.
Disney has this rule on all artistic creations of it's employees