HN readers often wonder how to fix non-competes. Here's a simple idea: if you run a start-up, stand up for your employees and don't put this crap into offers.
Basically I don't put anything in an employment agreement that I wouldn't sign myself.
Basically I don't put anything in an employment agreement that I wouldn't sign myself.
not saying non-competes are straight up good, but it's not that they exist in a vacuum because every employee is the evil guy from monopoly.
I like the solution that we have here, non competes without monetary compensation are immediately void. so if they want to handcuff you, they have to pay for it after employment for as long as they want the non compete to be enforceable.
it's a minor simple thing, but haggling on the non compete handout is much easier than trying to get the non compete removed.
Almost everyone (except the shareholders) benefits from employer-employee noncompetes being banned outright. Almost everyone suffers from having business-business nonsolicitations being banned outright. Why the studio's lawyer didn't include it in the contract is beyond me...
Happy to be proven wrong.