Current landing page reads "Welcome Back
More information on how to continue your services will be available tomorrow at 9am EST"<p>Digging a little deeper shows a banner that says "Exciting news! Bench has been acquired by Employer.com"<p>Exciting news indeed.<p>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 .<p>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."<p>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.
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Yes, looks like they were acquired by <a href="https://www.employer.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.employer.com/</a> according to <a href="https://bench.co" rel="nofollow">https://bench.co</a> website,<p>press release on tech crunch: <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/30/bench-to-be-acquired-after-abruptly-shutting-down/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2024/12/30/bench-to-be-acquired-after...</a>