A recurring demand posed to companies in the post-#MeToo era has been to release former employees from their confidentiality agreements in instances where they want to go public with their experiences. A cadre of former staffers at the Wing, the women’s coworking space and social club, banded together in June to form a collective called Flew the Coup, which has shared anonymous accounts of mistreatment. After the coronavirus shuttered all Wing locations, most of the staffers who manned the spaces were laid off and signed NDAs in exchange for severance; one of Flew the Coup’s key demands has been that the Wing’s leadership should lift their NDAs. A group of former Black employees at Morgan Stanley has made a similar request, so they can come forward with allegations of racial discrimination while at the company. (The Wing could not be reached prior to publication, and Morgan Stanley declined to comment.) … [Read more...] about ‘How much is my silence worth?’: Amid a racial reckoning, women are rejecting NDAs
