Workers Getting Ready To Walk?

[jeffrey]

Growing signs that companies are starting to hire have employers bracing for something new: turnover. Job hopping is expected to surge as hiring picks up. To prepare, employers are strengthening legal contracts designed to protect trade secrets and adding programs to retain valued workers.

About half of companies have employees sign non-disclosure agreements that bar them from disclosing trade secrets, according to a March poll by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). And more than a third are reminding employees who leave about the need to keep trade secrets private... [read more at usatoday.com]