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I have never encountered a non-compete in my home state of Texas, so I looked this up: https://www.texasnoncompetelaw.com/articles/noncompete-agreements/ https

I have never encountered a non-compete in my home state of Texas, so I looked this up: https://www.texasnoncompetelaw.com/articles/noncompete-agreements/ https://www.texasnoncompetelaw.com/articles/noncompete-agree... It appears in Texas non-competes are a thing, but only to restrict the direct transfer of business/market responsibility to a competing business, which I imagine generally applies to only senior executives and sales agents. It seems at one point almost all of the travel industry, except Expedia, was located in my area and people were bouncing between competing employers all the time without any limitation. People were even leaving their employers to found competing businesses without limitation. As somebody who has never had to deal with this madness it seems strange that any state would want to wound its own economy by restricting employee mobility.

wolverine876 5y ago
> it seems strange that any state would want to wound its own economy by restricting employee mobility It seems strange that a state would make laws that serve the interests of the wealthy and powerful?
claytonjy 5y ago
Good to know; I got a rather broader non-compete from an Austin startup recently, though they have an overseas HQ. To their credit, they removed it upon my request, though I ultimately accepted a different role.
HWR_14 5y ago
> it seems strange that any state would want to wound its own economy by restricting employee mobility. That's because you think the goal is to maximize the state's overall revenue/economy. It's not. It's to maximize the income to specific well connected individuals and their investments.