Vantaggi
I liked MediaCom for the first couple of years. There are some good clients and most people are really nice, I never saw any bullying or anything like that. Training for planners is good.
Svantaggi
MediaCom's big claim is that they put "people first". It's even in our email signatures. They make a big song and dance about how much they care about staff's mental health. However as soon as Covid hit they made almost 100 people redundant immediately. This was before any other agency in London. And they didn't even do furlough, just BAM a ton of loyal and high performing people suddenly just axed. These included people who are vulnerable, like older people (one of whom had worked for them for 30+ years) and people with lung conditions, people who lived alone and had been self isolating without any support, suddenly having to contend with redundancy in the middle of a pandemic. It's an absolute disgrace. Those of us who are left have had our eyes opened to how little they actually give a toss about their people. Staff are just a commodity and an expense like any other that will be culled at the first sign of trouble, Many of those of us left will be out of the door as soon as the jobs market opens up again. People don't come first at MediaCom, shareholders do.