Lauren Weber
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740 appearances
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first heard Jul 2017
last heard Dec 2024
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These are all processes that do take some time to kind of work their way into how people behave and the choices they make.
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Partly as a labor retention strategy.
You know, they, especially at a, you know, perhaps a time like this or when the labor market is very tight, they don't want to lose workers.
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Originally, non-compete agreements were used mainly to protect real trade secrets.
So they were applied to the contracts of, say, top executives or high-performing salespeople or technical scientists who had real proprietary information like formulas.
But over time, they've become much more common, partly, I think, because of the internet.
This is what some of my sources told me.
It became really easy for business owners and lawyers to just find a template online, cut and paste it into employment contracts and apply it to all of their workers.
So according to one survey that was completed recently, 32% of companies use non-compete agreements in the employment contracts for all of their employees.
That's from entry-level workers and the lowest paid workers all the way up to their highest executives.
And I just want to add to that, not only, like I said, entry-level workers, but even very low-paid people have become caught up in these non-compete agreements like janitors or baristas or school teachers, security guards.
So for people who are earning relatively little and in large part don't have access to confidential information, they're still being caught up in these.
Generally, non-compete clauses will say something like, you can't go to work for a competitor, a direct rival in the same industry, usually for a certain length of time.
It might be six months, it might be two years, sometimes it's even longer.
Sometimes they'll also include a geographic radius.
So it might be, you can't go to work for another company in the same industry within a radius of 50 miles.
Sometimes they're actually applied globally.
So there's a lot of discretion that companies have to set the terms for these.
It's true.
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