Non-competes more applicable in high tech

High tech companies have become much more aggressive in preventing employees from moving to the competition (including when the competitor is a startup of which the departing employee is a co-founder) and the courts are giving them an edge: Companies crack down on loose lips.

Note that courts are curtailing employees’ rights to take new jobs even when they have not signed any type of non-compete clause or agreement, relying heavily on the theory of inevitable disclosure of trade secrets.