Re:White House urges ban on non-compete agreements for many ...
by onion2k on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @10:56AM
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Video encoding tech doesn't change very quickly, and a 3x improvement is huge, so a competitor might well be happy to ask John to take 6 months off and pay him a joining bonus to make up for it. If the improvement is big enough they might pay him to take a couple of years off.
So how long should John be banned from working for a competitor for exactly? 5 years? 10 years? Until his current employer says he can?
What if John leaves and starts an open source project doing the thing he's learned how to do really well? Should he be stopped from writing code in a particular domain as a hobby?
What if John leaves because he's had a brilliant idea that his current employer refuses to listen to? Should John be banned from starting his own competing company? Should an employer be able to restrict an idea from getting to market when they're not using it themselves?
So how long should John be banned from working for a competitor for exactly? 5 years? 10 years? Until his current employer says he can?
What if John leaves and starts an open source project doing the thing he's learned how to do really well? Should he be stopped from writing code in a particular domain as a hobby?
What if John leaves because he's had a brilliant idea that his current employer refuses to listen to? Should John be banned from starting his own competing company? Should an employer be able to restrict an idea from getting to market when they're not using it themselves?