Lim says that many corporations have taken to heart the lessons of Microsoft's legal battle with Google over the latter's hiring of Microsoft vice president Lee Kai-fu. Firms are abandoning their go-it-alone attitude and are now addressing personnel shortages by cooperating to host events like job fairs. "They even come to gentlemen's agreements not to poach employees," he adds.
為了因應人才短缺，並記取 2005 年美國資訊兩大龍頭微軟和 Google，為了爭奪台灣出身的全球副總裁李開復而對簿公堂的教訓，「許多業者已放棄過去單打獨鬥的老方法，改採集體徵才，甚至達成『互不挖角』的君子協定，」林建山指出。