I’ve been informed that non-disparagement clauses are more common than I believed. Those clauses might be a reason that someone would feel bound to keep their mouth shut. I still think that it would be hard to have non-disparagement clauses with all of an org’s ex employees, but you might be missing out of the views of the most disgruntled 1% of employees across a wider swath of orgs.
I’ve been informed that non-disparagement clauses are more common than I believed. Those clauses might be a reason that someone would feel bound to keep their mouth shut. I still think that it would be hard to have non-disparagement clauses with all of an org’s ex employees, but you might be missing out of the views of the most disgruntled 1% of employees across a wider swath of orgs.