The designer spoke about the conditions imposed by the employer, prohibiting him from working in other places after working hours. Did other IT specialists see any reason for this?

Nina Rudenko, 2D Artist and Illustrator

No one has ever set such conditions for me. But I myself have come to such a rule that I do not take freelance work when I work full-time. Because personally it exhausts me and I get anxious that I will not be able to manage everything properly in terms of time/quality. I think that if a person can perform their tasks qualitatively, and then also do freelance work, then why not, let them do it. But if the salary is good, then the person will think carefully about why they need that extra workload.

Oleg Klyapko, full-stack developer

Well, it’s really great. Now you can show your grandmother/parents why you can’t go dig potatoes 🤣The company really cares about the candidate

Roman Manzhula, Java Developer

Intellectual work/activity requires maximum focus, which is why such requirements arise.

If you take such a demand «at face value», then only indignation arises. But if you analyze it from the point of view of benefit, then it is really worth attention.

The employer wants to see a fully charged tool at work, with productivity and efficiency. Statistics also say that all the troubles we have with people are precisely due to fatigue -> stress -> and bad statistics.

If the salary were adequate, there would be no point in taking that part-time job, and they would also pay the customer extra.

Andriy Yustyk, Senior backend engineer

If the placement is for an individual entrepreneur, then this is a clear example of the desire to save on taxes and everything else that is included in the employment contract.

You wouldn’t, for example, tell a builder, «If you’re building a fence for me, you can’t do it with other clients!»

Well, whether it’s normal or not is up to each person to decide. Again, there are conditions from one side and the other. If everyone is happy with everything, then everyone is happy with everything…

Serhiy Maksyuta, Implementing AI and Cloud solutions

It never bothered me. Especially since how will they check it? No way.

Igor Bodak, Lead Data Scientist

I find the conditions wild. In my free time, I can work with a completely different technology (not the one in my main job). My brain switches, and my main job doesn’t bore me. Why would anyone forbid me from working after work hours?

Igor Matsiuta, lead programmer

It seems to me that the case is normal. The motives can be different, from keeping people from burning out and «thinking» only about our tasks, to making people dependent on one source of income and not giving such an important resource to competitors (for example, like Google or other mastodons do), or maybe all of them together?

But regardless of the root causes, the compensation for the person should be above the market. How to keep such a specialist with such a condition.

Mark, Lead Automation Engineer

This is not full time, but full life they meant. Send them through the woods. Then we will be a family and a great team, there are no bonuses and the salary is below the market.

Kateryna Ishchenko, Business Lawyer / Business Development

In Germany, it is a standard condition, because the employer wants to see an employee at work who is rested and comes to give 100% to his company. It is not a matter of competition or simply a ban, but of the belief that after work you should rest and not take on additional tasks.

Petro Tarasenko, QA Team Lead at Wix.com

I think such requirements began during the Covid era, when people started taking on 2-3 projects in parallel. Companies are starting to «secure themselves» in this way. This requirement seems «adequate» in the current realities from the employer’s point of view.

The issues of different views on the part of the employee and the employer are not new and obvious. And in this process everyone (or not everyone) tries to meet each other, but the middle ground can not always be reached for various reasons. In an ideal world, of course, this requirement does not look normal.

But in an ideal world, the candidate is also always focused, motivated, happy, etc.