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by jakozaur 3288 days ago
In many countries (e.g. Poland) non-competes are only legal if you pay X% (e.g. in Poland it is 25%) of salary for as long as you signed non-compete after your employment ends.

This is still not ideal. The best is to ban non-competes or make them even more expensive.

From economical perspective for ecosystem, non-competes are bad. They reduce the competition and may force some talented person to be underutilized below potential. Plus open whole class of abuse. "Our flipping burger strategy is so unique that you couldn't do it elsewhere"

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/15/upshot/when-the-guy-makin...