Been through several acquisitions and each one us different but one major repeatedly gave people offers that did not require an immediate move, even for jobs they outsourced, keeping them around long enough to be past the two year protection period. Then they laid them off under their lousy severance. They literally called it "free labor" since our change of control was.generous. The only folks who did not get treated this way were managers, who were mostly severanced out, and field workers. As part of the transition team, I overheard them. I also learned this was SOP for acquisitions.