{"id":136,"date":"2005-11-01T18:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-02T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=136"},"modified":"2005-12-02T00:53:28","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T00:53:28","slug":"hewitt-for-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/?p=136","title":{"rendered":"Hewitt for sale?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>Somewhere in my last 100 posts I mentioned that Hewitt was in a fairly weak operational position and might be an aquisition target. I&#8217;ll have to admit that I didn&#8217;t really believe it, and honestly I still don&#8217;t. They are the undisputed leader in HRO at the moment, and their laser-like focus on this market should get them out of any growing pains they have.<\/p>\n<p>However, I should mention that I found this text in Yahoo! finance:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Leder reported that <b>Hewitt Associates<\/b> (NYSE: <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=hew&amp;d=t\">HEW<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q\/h?s=hew\">News<\/a>) filed an 8-K form granting 65,000 restricted shares to four company bigwigs and &#8220;change in control&#8221; severance agreements to some 24 executives. She notes that, &#8220;The agreements are fairly standard&#8230;. But they&#8217;re probably worth paying attention to, since we&#8217;ve all seen this type of pattern &#8212; expanding the number of folks covered by change in control agreements &#8212; as an almost routine event when a company is prepping itself for a sale.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere in my last 100 posts I mentioned that Hewitt was in a fairly weak operational position and might be an aquisition target. I&#8217;ll have to admit that I didn&#8217;t really believe it, and honestly I still don&#8217;t. They are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hewitt","category-hro","category-vendors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}