Yeah, I think the blog is written by lawyers who represent employers and/or draft noncompetes. Massachusetts recently almost banned them, California style, in

Yeah, I think the blog is written by lawyers who represent employers and/or draft noncompetes. Massachusetts recently almost banned them, California style, in response to the narrative that the Route 128 tech corridor could have been Silicon Valley were it not for enforceable noncompetes. The law was heavily watered down once industry lobbyists (especially from all the biotech companies) got done with it. Still, it is a big improvement over the status quo. It limits time to one year, requires 50% compensation during the time when you can't work, and bans the most egregious abuses (noncompetes for minimum wage employees and so on).