Re:Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements
by api on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @01:37PM
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Silicon Valley has shown us that this doesn't necessarily really help businesses. It's an irrational fear-based scarcity-mentality behavior that actually harms businesses by ruining their talent ecosystems. You want employees to jump around and take on a variety of roles to gain experience and connections.
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Re:Obama takes aim at workers’ non-compete agreements
by sytse on Wednesday October 26, 2016 @02:08PM
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If most companies don't have non-competes that is better for everyone indeed. But there is no incentive for companies to be the only one not having non-competes. If you see employee mobility as the shared resource it is a tragedy of the commons. I think it would be better to mostly abolish noncompetes around the world as is already done in California. However as GitLab we have them in our contracts since it is in the interest of the company. It is a bit of a paradox.