请问HN:我们唯一的销售人员在为竞争对手工作。有什么建议吗?
我们最近发现,我们唯一的销售员工——一位远程工作的、备受信任的团队成员——在过去16个月中秘密与竞争对手合作,可能更久,甚至可能涵盖了他们在我们公司的整个任期。这一切发生在他们与我们签订了包含竞业禁止条款的全职雇佣协议期间(该条款适用于在职期间及离职后)。<p>我们是一家小型的加拿大B2B SaaS公司(员工人数少于20人),在一个省注册,而这名员工则在另一个省。他们在代表竞争对手参加贸易展时,声称是以我们的名义出席,或者以生病为由请假。在我们的工作时间内,他们为竞争对手处理了来电线索,可能还利用了我们的ZoomInfo订阅为自己谋利,并且有能力在我们不知情的情况下转移线索。事情远不止于此。<p>我们之间的关系本来很好——我们喜欢他们,信任他们,认为我们有着稳固的合作关系。唯一的担忧是与业绩相关的,我们认为这只是市场环境造成的。<p>当我们准备解雇他们时,他们得知了消息,愤怒地辞职,并声称遭受骚扰和建设性解雇。<p>各位创始人:你们会怎么做?继续前进?进一步调查?和解?升级处理?你们是否遇到过信任的员工暗中为竞争对手工作?
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We recently discovered that our sole sales employee - a remote, highly trusted team member - had been secretly working with a competitor for over 16 months, possibly longer, potentially spanning their entire tenure with us. This was all while under a full-time employment agreement with a non-compete clause (covering both during and post-employment).<p>We’re a small Canadian B2B SaaS company (< 20 people), incorporated in one province, with this employee based in another. They attended trade shows representing the competitor (while claiming they were there on our behalf or calling in sick). They serviced inbound leads for the competitor during our workday, likely used our ZoomInfo subscription for their benefit, and were in a position to divert leads without our knowledge. The list goes on.<p>We were genuinely on good terms - we liked them, trusted them, and thought we had a solid relationship. The only concerns were performance-related, which we had chalked up to market conditions.<p>As we were preparing to let them go, they caught wind and rage-quit, with claims of harassment and constructive dismissal.<p>Fellow founders: What would you do? Move on? Investigate further? Settle? Escalate? Have you dealt with a trusted employee quietly working for a competitor?