Thoughts on BBDO Chicago?
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Here’s an interesting topic: Agencies that have 50%+ of their employees working remotely (from their homes) while the other 50% work in the HQ office where the owners take daily attendance, chastise employees who need to come in late or leave early, employees are threatened to have holidays taken away because “the owners work on holidays” and “all hands” meeting are regularly scheduled for Friday afternoons to make sure no one leaves the office early. Fascinating.
Hey friends, I’m going to be relocating to Chicago in about a month. I’m currently a freelancer with some remote clients in the coasts, but would like to expand my network to hopefully get local work or maybe go FT. Any pointers or advice for someone new to the Chicago ad scene? Agencies that hire more freelance? Agencies to stay away from? Anyone want to be my friend?
Most everyone from FCB wants to quit. There just aren’t enough jobs out there right now for us all to leave. Omnicom wants it this way. They promised significant costs savings and probably the easiest way to achieve that is to just let the people who can leave and find other jobs leave.
Account Supp1 on Boeing and DCI the leadership is good????
Chicago is a city. BBDO is an agency, by name
I was about to reply to this thread saying BBDO is one of the least creative places I’ve ever worked in my life, but this comment already said it for me.
I’ve worked at a couple hold-cos, and as someone who is legacy FCB now BBDO Chicago, it’s not the worst situation. Aside from being under Omnicom and the horrible treatment of employees and “benefits”. Creative is actually fun and a lot of the people have been here a long time for a reason. Ofc people want to leave in the acquisition for plenty of reasons but grass is not always greener and jobs are limited. My one call out is some of the teams and people are extremely fake and toxic. If you can compartmentalize work from personal, you’re fine. Just know you might become someone else’s stepping stool.