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Obvious University
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  • 👋Welcome to Obvious University!
  • Strategy
    • Sprints
      • 1️⃣Map
      • 2️⃣Sketch
      • 3️⃣Decide
      • 4️⃣Prototype
      • 5️⃣Test
    • Benchmarking
    • Research
      • 1️⃣Research guide
      • 2️⃣How to recruit users
      • 3️⃣How to conduct an interview well
      • 4️⃣How to take notes
      • 5️⃣How to prep for remote research
      • 6️⃣How to throw a watch party
      • 7️⃣How to create artefacts
  • Working with Features
    • Building with AI
      • 1️⃣Understand the tech
      • 2️⃣Map your product
      • 3️⃣Build a proof of concept
      • 4️⃣LLM Inputs
      • 5️⃣LLM Responses
    • Building Help and Support
      • 1️⃣How to scope a support experience
      • 2️⃣How to design discovery for support
      • 3️⃣How to design a support centre
      • 4️⃣How to write good support articles
  • Product Design
    • Microcopy
      • 1️⃣How to write well
      • 2️⃣How to write phrases
      • 3️⃣How to write messages
      • 4️⃣How to create a voice
    • Typography
      • 1️⃣How to compose type
      • 2️⃣How to create a type scale
      • 3️⃣How to pick typefaces
      • 4️⃣How to pair typefaces
    • Design System
      • 1️⃣Introduction to design systems
      • 2️⃣How to audit a design system
      • 3️⃣How to run a design system pilot
      • 4️⃣How to set up a design foundation
      • 5️⃣How to build components
      • 6️⃣How to document a design system
      • 7️⃣How to enable adoption and govern a design system
    • Mobile Engineering
      • 1️⃣Trunk based development
      • 2️⃣Agile development terminology
      • 3️⃣Git commit messages
      • 4️⃣Code review and pull requests
      • 5️⃣Readings
  • Delivery
    • Project Management
    • Collaboration
  • Hiring and Growth
    • Growth
      • 1️⃣Design growth framework
      • 2️⃣How to give ongoing feedback
      • 3️⃣How to check-in every quarter
      • 4️⃣How to address underperformance
      • 5️⃣FAQs
    • Hiring and careers
      • 1️⃣The Hiring Process
      • 2️⃣Diverse and Inclusive Hiring
  • PEOPLE EXPERIENCE
    • Benefits and Perks
      • 1️⃣Paid time off
      • 2️⃣Insurance and healthcare
      • 3️⃣Continuing education
      • 4️⃣Speaking at conferences
    • Starting at Obvious
      • 1️⃣Introducing Obvious
      • 2️⃣Set up your workspace
      • 3️⃣Onboarding
      • 4️⃣Finances
      • 5️⃣Code of Conduct
    • Employment policies
      • 1️⃣Equal opportunity employment
      • 2️⃣At-will employment
      • 3️⃣Employee records and privacy
      • 4️⃣Prevention of sexual harassment
      • 5️⃣Drugs and alcohol
      • 6️⃣Fraternisation
      • 7️⃣Non-compete and non-solicitation
      • 8️⃣Non-disclosure
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  • 👋 Introduction
  • 1️⃣ Non-compete clause
  • 2️⃣ Non-solicitation clause
  • 3️⃣ FAQs
  1. PEOPLE EXPERIENCE
  2. Employment policies

Non-compete and non-solicitation

👋 Introduction

It's not uncommon for clients to wonder if they can hire someone from the team. However, an agency is valuable because of the people who work there and to protect that, we sign two-way contracts with clients and employees on not competing and not soliciting.

1️⃣ Non-compete clause

The non-compete clause means that employees may not work with clients:

  • in a capacity similar to their work at Obvious (Design / consulting / leading teams etc.)

  • in any role relevant to them (employee / consultant / director / investor or shareholder)

  • for or without compensation

  • directly or on a trust basis, without a contract

These conditions are valid for 12 months from the date of an employee’s exit.

Clients are also expected to not make offers to Obvious employees for 12 months from the date of their project ending.

Sometimes timelines can work out in a way that you initiated a conversation with an organisation before they became Obvious' clients and by the time they made an offer to you, they began a project with Obvious. In this scenario, your best course of action is to inform the hiring contact that they are currently working with your present org. The timestamps on the conversation will help clear the stickiness of the situation.

2️⃣ Non-solicitation clause

The non-solicitation clause means that employees may not incite any existing employees, consultants or associates:

  • to stop working with Obvious

  • to reduce their association with Obvious

  • to join or work with another organisation

This agreement also extends to customers, suppliers, partners, sellers or independent contractors.

These conditions are valid for 12 months from the date of an employee’s exit.

3️⃣ FAQs

Does this include companies that are not clients of Obvious or prospective clients?

No.

Have there been situations when Obvious was okay with an ex-employee joining an existing client or recently concluded business partnership?

There are a few instances that are essentially acts of goodwill. For examples, high performers moving out because the business contracted or people moving geographies and therefore Obvious referred them to a client in that geography.

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