"Obviously it's not quite the right timing for me, but I think it is really important for other people, and especially young people starting out in their career, low-to-middle income earners, to know that this is happening, and it's happening more than people are aware of."
"Essentially, it was a risk they couldn't afford to take."
"It was really, really hard and I had to stay with this [former] company for a long time while I sorted the legal risks of leaving,"she said.
"It's the security in a business that when you're investing time, energy, money … but also know that there is a seriousness and just a backbone when they choose to leave."
"They were still working for me when that happened. It's pretty cheeky,"he said.
"That's one of the problems, they are applied to people who don't fall into having intellectual property knowledge or would threaten the goodwill of the organisation."