Over the last few years, the Biden administration and legislatures in dozens of states have increasingly focused on efforts to preserve employee mobility, most notably by increasingly placing limits on the use of restrictive covenants and targeting as anticompetitive other measures like no-poach clauses between competitors. Even though restrictive covenants are typically intended to protect legitimate interests of employers, such as the protection of trade secrets, admittedly these tools have been misused in certain instances. Similarly, no-poach clauses—regardless of how arguably well-meaning the intent behind their use—have come under increasing attack both by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and in the courts. At a time when trade secrets are perceived to be of growing importance to businesses, increased limitations on tools like these can have a significant impact on a company's trade secrets protection efforts.