re: What would you expect from your employer in this situation?

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I took a couple of weeks and automated the entire process essentially eliminating the need for the contractors and some portion of that 500k a month. Should I expect some sort of bonus, raise, promotion, or just atta boy?

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It depends on who is there to champion your cause. If the good work you did was pre-acquisition it might get lost in the shuffle with all the chaos that comes with M&A.

From a lay-off perspective, if the target's IT department is better than the acquirer's IT department, I'd expect layoffs to mostly impact redundancies on the acquirer's side.