A Vox story on Saturday said the company could take back vested equity if departing employees did not sign a non-disparagement agreement.
"For a company to threaten to claw back already-vested equity is egregious and unusual," California employment law attorney Chambord Benton-Hayes told Vox.
AdvertisementOn Saturday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on X, "Vested equity is vested equity, full stop."
We have not and never will take away vested equity, even when people didn't sign the departure documents.
Not signing "could impact your equity," OpenAI told one of them, per Vox.
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