Comment by vidarh

Garden leave isn't for when you don't want to force people to work out their leave, but when you want to force them not to, and as the very next clause of my comment pointed out ("but a right for the employee"), it's not a given you can just do that in Norway. Most of the time, employees will be happy to be told they don't need to show up. Sometimes they aren't. There have been lawsuits over attempts to force people on garden leave in Norway.