Microsoft has done this before, and gotten dozens of people to quit their jobs temporarily, or switch the area they work in for a particular employer. The Crossgain episode (where the ex-msft founders and many of their fellow ex-msft recruits were forced to resign from their own company - see this BusinessWeek article for more: http://www.businessweek.com/2001/01_06/b3718158.ht m/) a few years ago left a deep impression on the programmers here in the Redmond area. Non-compete clauses are no-win for the worker-bees here in Washington state. I don't know about China, though.
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Microsoft has done this before, and gotten dozens of people to quit their jobs temporarily, or switch the area they work in for a particular employer. The Crossgain episode (where the ex-msft founders and many of their fellow ex-msft recruits were forced to resign from their own company - see this BusinessWeek article for more: http://www.businessweek.com/2001/01_06/b3718158.ht m/) a few years ago left a deep impression on the programmers here in the Redmond area. Non-compete clauses are no-win for the worker-bees here in Washington state. I don't know about China, though.