Could acqui-hiring work outside the tech space?

The Context Of Things

The basic concept of “acqui-hiring” is pretty simple — as more tech talent (primarily that’s the industry where this happens) opts for start-ups over bigger companies, the bigger companies find it harder to acquire talent the conventional way (i.e. recruiting and sourcing). So … they simply acquire the smaller company and lock the engineers / research and development / content / mobile / eta al people into 2-4 year contracts. Yahoo is doing this right now: since 2012 when Marissa Mayer took over, they’ve acquired 26 companies. Only about 4-5 of those, most notably Tumblr, are still operating as stand-alone companies. Most have been merged in with Yahoo as a whole, and then there’s this:

By necessity, many bigger companies are recruiting by simply buying the smaller companies that employ the talent they need and lock the engineers in to multi-year contracts (Yahoo, for instance, signs “purchased” employees to agreements…

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