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Current landing page reads "Welcome Back More information on how to continue your services will be available tomorrow at 9am EST"

Digging a little deeper shows a banner that says "Exciting news! Bench has been acquired by Employer.com"

Exciting news indeed.

From a comms and customer confidence standpoint, this seems like something you would rather have had happen on Thursday before Bench announced its shutdown to the world, but .

Who is Employer? According to a press release from Nov 22, 2024, "Recruiter Ventures, a leader in talent acquisition and workforce management solutions, today announced its strategic consolidation of its existing portfolio of brands and technologies under the Employer brand."

Will Recruiter Ventures continue to run the existing Bench machine with the existing Bench team? Will they still make a data export available to companies that have been spooked by all of this? We'll have to see.