Do any of you participate in employee stock purchase program? I’m at an IPG firm FWIW.

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I mean, depends if you have faith in the future of agencies.

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Yes, I do. But mine is a different kind of company, not agency. We have non comms revenue streams.

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I was given 4 WPP stocks a year back when they still granted them to employees, but between the mandatory hold period and the fact that WPP's stock price just hasn't been performing as well as it did when they were initially granted (late 2000s), I've only been able to cash out 4 stocks once in the course of 12 years of employment. I understand that there's more flexibility with ESPP class stock, but I wouldn't throw my money at it.

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