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> Also, if your business is more at risk from employees than competitors, I think you need to seriously reconsider either your treatment of your employees, your business model, or your market analysis.

You are always at more risk from employees because they have multiple ways to hose you. Labor disputes, billing issues, intellectual property ownership agreements, etc.

This is why we have things like NDAs, Confidentiality Agreements, Patent Assignments, Stock Agreements, etc.

You don't have to be treating your employees badly for one to cause you issues. Even a disagreement about how much to sell the company for can cause problems, and that's not even a malicious reason to disagree.



> You are always at more risk from employees because they have multiple ways to hose you. Labor disputes, billing issues, intellectual property ownership agreements, etc.

That reasoning smells fallacious to me. Just because there are more kinds of risks, doesn't necessarily mean you're at more risk.


This is why I'm more afraid of poisonous animals than car accidents. There are many kinds of poisonous animals!


What business do you run? I'd like to avoid ending up there by accident, because it sounds like a place unfriendly to Labor.


Those sound like ways to hose your employees and make them dependent on you.




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