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Confidentiality clause
Confidentiality clause is the duty not to share non-public information. Necessary, not sufficient, for customer data and product secrets.
How it works
Pair with access cuts and a DSA. A clause without offboarding is a poster. Survival after exit should be written and reasonable. For a U.S. company hiring one Filipino teammate, write this into the brief, the employment contract, and the peso payroll file before the start date. Slack habits do not override the Labor Code, BIR, or NPC. If the local employer of record holds the paper, they run the statutory step; you still owe a clean operating definition so the seat does not fail in week three. Put a number on the example when you budget loaded cost, because a nameless allowance always returns as a December surprise or a missed SLA.
Example: ex-EA still in a customer WhatsApp. Clause plus immediate access cut. Clause alone does not log them out.
How it differs
IP assignment is ownership. DPA duties can exist even if the clause is sloppy.
Common errors
A one-line ‘keep secrets’ with no definition of secrets.
In practice
Treat Confidentiality clause as a week-one operating object. Name the system of record, the device, and who can still log in on the last day. If the answer is a shared password, stop. Write an owner - founder, local employer, or worker - and a date you will look at it again: first cutoff, first holiday, or first miss. If nobody can show a contract clause, a payslip line, a calendar block, or a checklist box, you do not have confidentiality clause yet. You have a conversation. Convert the conversation before the person starts, while changing the deal still costs a paragraph rather than a resignation. Re-read the worked example above against the actual hire in front of you. If the numbers in that example cannot be swapped for this seat’s pesos, hours, and start date, the brief is still unfinished.