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A new survey <Link> found that 31 percent of respondents were unaware of specific provisions in their employment agreement, including non-competes, non-solicitation clauses, arbitration requirements and intellectual property assignment language, terms that can shape where they work next, how disputes get resolved and who owns their ideas.
Whether the employee is too embarrassed to ask questions, comprehension is reduced due to digital delivery or complicated language, Aubrey Mullins recommends hiring managers or HR leaders walk new hires through onboarding paperwork in person, rather than relying on paperwork to carry the conversation on its own.
Source: HRD, July 10, 2026. Link. The problem isn’t that people are skipping the document. The issue is what they’re missing inside it.
Reading isn’t the problem, understanding is and it leaves a lot of employees in the dark about what they’ve agreed to.”
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