Do brand design / strategy shops have better w/l balance than advertising?

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It's more the model of selling hours. Cheaper hours = cheaper product = better margin. Cheaper hours means wage theft, low wage, and juniors.

The holdcos are the worst because there's people staffed to squeeze those numbers to milk every last penny, but anywhere run by similarly minded people will be the same.

It's like restaurants. It's not whether you're at asian or american or french so much as whether you're at a Micheline or a QSR.

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I think you’ll find that the work life balance is better but there isn’t much space to stretch your head and you will be bored.

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