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Company A and Company B have FooBars servers. Company A comes up with a revolutionary new way to serve FooBar that cuts cost in half. Company B would love to
by wccrawford 15y ago
Company A and Company B have FooBars servers. Company A comes up with a revolutionary new way to serve FooBar that cuts cost in half.
Company B would love to know this secret. So they hire one of the workers in Company A that knows the secret. Legally and ethically Worker X cannot tell the secret. But they can hint, and work towards that secret without telling anyone. They may even let it slip by accident.
Non-competes are designed to prevent Worker X from revealing this secret, even by accident.
- danssig 15y ago>But they can hint, and work towards that secret without telling anyone. They may even let it slip by accident. >Non-competes are designed to prevent Worker X from revealing this secret, even by accident. If the person is willing to break one law, why wouldn't they be willing to break another? Non-competes have nothing to do with this. It's just another technique businesses use to try and disrupt proper market forces in the job market. It should not be legal to use a non-compete contract unless you are going to pay the person's salary while they're under the agreement. Why should tax payers be footing that bill?