The FTC has banned noncompete agreements

Illustration by The Verge | Photo via Getty Images The Federal Trade Commission has voted to ban noncompete agreements nationwide, saying that they are an “unfair method of competition.”Noncompete agreements — which attempt to prevent employees from working for or starting competing businesses — are especially prevalent in the world of tech, where we’ve seen companies like Amazon enforce and then retract a noncompete agreement for warehouse workers. Acer even sued i