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Ask HN: When a company is acquihired, what stops employees immediately leaving?
It occurred to me today while browsing HN — if a company is acquihired, is there typically anything in place that stops the employees leaving either before or after the acquisition?
I could envision a company being acquired for the people, but then people leave and the purchasing company is left paying a large sum for far fewer employees than they anticipated.
- WalterSear 6y agoIt's on the acquiring company to make it worthwhile for the acquihired employees to stick around, or they generally do leave.
- troydavis 6y agoA vesting schedule on options or RSUs. Sometimes it’s a new grant and amount based on their new position, other times the amount is roughly equivalent to what they previously had.
- zuhayeer 6y agoRetention packages from the acquiring party get pretty insane to keep key employees on board.