I promise to keep your name and personal details completely confidential.
But I would like you to let me know approximately how many people have been made redundant from your agency in 2009?
Everyone needs to know the truth: the real facts, not the agency management’s PR-controlled bullshit.
Because agency management throughout the region are lying, and it’s the agency staff who are suffering. Management are telling the media that they have made no redundancies, so that they can preserve a false image of success and resilience.
Which means that they are happy for their staff to suffer for the sake of their own reputation. Which makes me screaming mad, for one critical and undeniable reason:
If agencies are denying that they have made any redundancies because of financial reasons - then those people who have been made redundant, must have been fired because they are not good enough. Which, in most cases, is simply not true. I’ve personally interviewed many, many talented people this year who have only lost their jobs because their bosses are losing money.
These lies could ruin careers. Possibly damage lives. And ultimately undermine the future of the industry.
It’s unfair. It must be stopped. So we need to know the truth.
So please - please - let us know how many people you believe have been fired from your agency this year.
So that we can share the truth, begin rebuilding people’s careers - and start resurrecting our industry.
Please email me in total confidence at chrisj@brutalsimplicity.asia
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July 17th, 2009 at 4:53 pm
should follow twitter.com/adagencylayoffs
July 18th, 2009 at 11:09 am
what’s the count for M&C?
July 20th, 2009 at 12:38 pm
What grandstanding. As if an anonymous survey by e-mail would give anything like an accurate figure - just a huge mess of guesses, double counting, under-estimating, confusion of division and country numbers - worse than useless, as it will then be used as some form of spurious fact. However it does make the author look compassionate and concerned, and not like the other nasty agency bosses - which I guess is the main point.
July 20th, 2009 at 1:37 pm
There is a difference between Redundancies, Retrenchments and Terminations.
July 20th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
My experience is that when it comes to job cuts agencies tend to miss the point. What clients want during difficult times is rock solid project management of limited budgets, maximum bang for the buck, and a proactive attitude to get in front of the curve. What actually happens is that the first to go are the AE’s, AM’s and AD’s who can actually get work done whilst the corner offices survive. 10 AE salaries or a CSD? mmmm difficult decision that one, lets discuss over lunch old chap!