Rockstar has been accused of union busting, but the company says the fired employees were "distributing and discussing confidential information in a public forum"
“The CEO said in a meeting that they want to use AI to replace QA”
This sounds like it would be on the edge if the company is publicly traded and there’s a chance that information wasn’t communicated to investors, especially for something like video games where launch bugs could make or break initial impression and thus sales.
“Wanna hear about this cool bug I found today?”
This is probably fine if it’s unreleased and has been fixed. It’s probably not fine if it’s in a released product and hasn’t been fixed.
Talking about issues surrounding work outside of the workplace is not an NDA violation.
In this scenario I’m assuming they were talking about project specifics, which would absolutely be covered.
I’m not sure about other industries, but in games NDAs and similar restrictive contract clauses tend to be extremely strict and often quite broad.
I know, I’ve helped successfully form a large union within the video games industry. NDAs can only cover the work itself.
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This sounds like it would be on the edge if the company is publicly traded and there’s a chance that information wasn’t communicated to investors, especially for something like video games where launch bugs could make or break initial impression and thus sales.
This is probably fine if it’s unreleased and has been fixed. It’s probably not fine if it’s in a released product and hasn’t been fixed.
Trust me on this one, we used similar organizing techniques for issues like these. The line is thin, but lined with landmines.