[tombert]

It is indirectly; if a company has trouble hiring, they might switch up the stack a bit to try and attract new talent.

For example, my previous employer (Jet.com) used F# partly because one of the most senior engineers liked it, but also partly because they thought it might attract some tech talent out of the shadows.

[ken]

I've never heard of any company switching languages because they were having trouble hiring.

[the2bears]

Happened at a company I worked for. Anecdotal, but it happens.