Beware of Companies Using Confidentiality Agreements as Lifetime Non-Competes
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Summary
Companies are using confidentiality agreements as lifetime non-compete clauses, restricting employees from working in the same industry even after leaving the company
Key quotes
· 2 pulledCompanies don’t really need non-competes anymore.
Some companies take an extremely broad interpretation of IP confidentiality, where they consider doing any work in the industry during your lifetime an inevitable confidentiality violation.
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