Vantaggi
Flexibility - Convenient when you’re updating your résumé during lunch Unpaid interns like it
Svantaggi
Age and experience seem like liabilities here. The people who literally built this place have been dismissed one by one, without ceremony or accountability. It’s hard not to notice who’s gone, and what they had in common. The company’s rolling layoffs raise serious questions about whether they're being used to disguise a pattern of bias particularly toward older, more experienced employees. It is an organization that has too much process and a**-kissing to be considered functional, much less good. A company that does neither storytelling nor technology well as evidenced by their 143 page decks that tell clients what they already know. Alliances and a loud voice are valued more than institutional knowledge, critical thinking or talent. The CEO loves to talk about yoga and mindfulness presumably to help soften the stress of ruining livelihoods and lives. Clients are noticing. Strange how replacing experienced staff with cheaper hires affects client relationships and work quality. As marketers, we harness the power of perception which is how Merge just won an Agency of the Year award. A gutting, instead leveraging, of the brain trust
