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Nothing like informing your employees that hard work won’t be rewarded. Wise business decision
It's even more insane when you find out that IBM has a history of forcing their employees to sign contracts that state that anything that their employees work on at home in their own free time, is the property of IBM
I'm not defending this, but this is an extremely common practice in the US.
IP assignment is extremely common, but there are almost always exceptions that you still own the IP if it's your own time, your own equipment, and not directly related to what you do for your employer.