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This is a bit out of date, but - https://www.beckreedriden.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Noncompetes-50-State-Survey-Chart-20190113.pdf https://www.beckreedrid

This is a bit out of date, but - https://www.beckreedriden.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Noncompetes-50-State-Survey-Chart-20190113.pdf https://www.beckreedriden.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Non... There are three states where non competes are essentially not permitted. California, Oklahoma, and North Dakota. Now, certainly, it's up to the company whether or not it imposes a non-compete, and to what it covers/applies to. It might be that you never took a job with one. But I've been subject to them at every place I've worked outside of California. While they haven't had any particularly large effect on me, I've definitely had to go back and read the fine print when considering a job change once or twice (not to mention when it came to hiring past colleagues).

ghaff 5y ago
I've never had one in LA, MA, or NH except for one time when EMC (who was one of the big players who resisted the non-compete changes that MA finally put in place) acquired the company I was at. The non-compete was reasonably narrow in scope--couldn't take a senior exec position at a storage vendor--but they were also very clear this wasn't negotiable. But I've certainly been aware of non-compete enforcement by the big companies in a certain category of consultants that basically meant anyone leaving couldn't do the same type of job anywhere for a couple years. My point though is that it's hardly universal even if not rare.
- lostcolony 5y ago
  Certainly; I don't think anyone is claiming they're universal. Just that enough players do it that it's a concern; you can't easily name and shame the companies that do have them, as an employee, because most companies do. And that they're net negatives, and shouldn't be legal (at least, not in the form many are in).