gardening leave (also garden leave) noun [U] (both BrE)

(HR )

a period when an employee, especially a senior person, who is going to leave a company is not allowed to work but is sent home on full pay, so that they will not be able to compete with the company or pass important information to a competitor:

She has been put on gardening leave until the end of her contract.

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