Epistemic status: Thinking out loud. Overall I’m rather confused about what to think here.
Yeah. And there is a Chesterton’s Fence element here too. Like as CEO, if you really want to go with a non-standard legal thing, you probably would want to make sure you understand why the standard thing is what it is.
Which, well, I guess you can just pay someone a few hundred dollars to tell you. Which I’d expect someone with the right kind of moral integrity to do. And I’d expect the answer to be something along the lines of:
If you actually treat people well, it only offers a pretty small degree of protection. And standard thinking only accounts for selfish company interests, not actual altruistic concern for employees or the norms you do or don’t endorse. So if you do care about the latter and intend to treat people well, it would probably make sense to get rid of it.
Although, perhaps it’d take a special lawyer to actually be frank with you and acknowledge all of that. And you’d probably want to get a second and third and fourth opinion too. But still, seeking that out seems like a somewhat obvious thing to do for someone with moral integrity. And if you do in fact get the response I described above, ditching the non-disparagement seems like a somewhat obvious way to respond.
Epistemic status: Thinking out loud. Overall I’m rather confused about what to think here.
Yeah. And there is a Chesterton’s Fence element here too. Like as CEO, if you really want to go with a non-standard legal thing, you probably would want to make sure you understand why the standard thing is what it is.
Which, well, I guess you can just pay someone a few hundred dollars to tell you. Which I’d expect someone with the right kind of moral integrity to do. And I’d expect the answer to be something along the lines of:
Although, perhaps it’d take a special lawyer to actually be frank with you and acknowledge all of that. And you’d probably want to get a second and third and fourth opinion too. But still, seeking that out seems like a somewhat obvious thing to do for someone with moral integrity. And if you do in fact get the response I described above, ditching the non-disparagement seems like a somewhat obvious way to respond.