Did ya’ll see the chaos at WPP today!? Mandatory RTO - required 16K people to come in and only had 5K seats. People sitting at ping pong tables, on the floor, 1 hour wait for restrooms 😂😂😂

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boy this oughta be a big productivity boost, can't wait to see the numbers

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The numbers of people out sick with respiratory diseases?

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The pure amount of milk has me dying laughing

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What a fucking joke

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An OSHA report will shut that down fast….

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I assume the WPP overlords can count heads vs. seats. Maybe they didn’t expect so many employees would actually obey the RTO order.

Any word from on high about coming in tomorrow?

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The sum of “work hard” and “play hard” to ensure you do neither.

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April fools joke?! What office fits 16,000?!

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Which agency is this specifically? Isn’t WPP just a holding company?

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Group M primarily. A lot of the other agencies made different policies knowing there weren’t enough seats

How do someone wait 1 hr to use the can?

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I’d like to know the timesheet code for that wait

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Wow, I have to ask - were you there or did you hear about this?

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Can confirm it was chaotic and ridiculous. They just reverted the policy to two days rotational. HA couldn’t even keep their policy in effect for 3 days

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LOL, It's all a joke and performative. They clearly just want people to resign.

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Hahaha

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All you’ve done here is provide more proof that WPP is shrinking. They pay more dividends out because the stock is falling. Got it.

You need to work harder to connect the higher dividend payouts to poor planning, overpaid leadership, and distracting work rules. That’s the topic of this thread.

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