Garden leave is being paid to stay away during your notice period. Put on garden leave, three months garden leave, garden leave clause.
The employer keeps you bound and out of the way, so you cannot join a competitor while still under contract and cannot take anything with you. The name says what everybody is expected to do with the time.
1noungarden leaveBeing paid to stay away during your notice period.
“After she resigned to join a rival firm, she was put on garden leave for three months.”
garden leave is a leave.
From the idea that somebody on paid notice can spend the time in the garden.
In reference to the time a person can work on their garden during their paid leave.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
Practised in Work & Careers