Rumors of a Simply Hired collapse were announced first on ERE. Later, I mentioned that June was likely the end.
Well, with June under our belts, Recruit Holdings, the company you probably remember as the one that bought Indeed, has published a small PDF online announcing that it bought Simply Hired’s Assets.
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The Recruit PDF is here. It says that the acquisition is effective today, and that Simply Hired “will continue to operate as a job search destination and will be a publishing partner of Indeed.”
Doesn’t make sense to me why they waited until now to tell the world they’re going to keep it running… their partners surely would have had less stress had they known – or did they?
because by waiting they were able to get the assets they were after at rock bottom pricing