good try BBDO.. but no. WFH is here to stay. 🙃
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The phrase “Managers have more control” gives me the actual creeps.
He’s a vertical storyteller
Chief
My “”vertical message” for this “vertical storyteller”: 🖕
Rising Star
Not a very persuasive argument, good thing he doesn’t try to convince people to buy stuff for a living.
👏👏👏
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No one used the foosball table before. Why would they now?
Exactly what happened.
20 mins a day we’d play.
Only ones.
Gone after one week.
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“Vertical Storyteller?”
Trust me, you don’t want this guy telling you horizontal stories.
Informal communication is also known as chit chat. That’s the enemy of productivity in my opinion. And teams can always meet in office if they need to brainstorm or hunker down, without having to be there every day potentially getting sick or being derailed by less-busy coworkers.
Rising Star
Isn’t this the guy that constantly posts old fake print ads as examples of creative brilliance?
Yes. Yes it is…
Give your foosball table to some frat boys. Can we go home now?
Nobody cares about foosball tables, this isn’t 2008
Pro
This is why I prefer to work with horizontal storytellers.
If you cant plank and tell stories at the same time in this industry you're dead to me.
We all know #2 is the reason they want us back.
And justifying rent
As a manager who does believe some in-person days will make us better-- especially on pitches, onboarding and growing new people etc-- arguments from "leaders" like this only pour gas on the (often accurate) perception that senior people are out of touch and not listening to real concerns people have.
The better model would be to accept there will be no one size fits all solution; good leaders who care about their people will work with them to see what ideal hybrid models look like -- whether that's by client, by team, or whatever makes most sense for your org.
Fighting for the past to return (Foosball? Really, son?) is entirely unhelpful and will lead to even further talent exodus. People like this guy make it harder for the rest of us to make meaningful progress on what future models could be in our agencies.
Rising Star
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/23/upshot/remote-work-innovation-office.html
Imma just leave this right here……
ACD1, I appreciate what you wrote except one critical part, my creative partner and I have the exact same creative chemistry being on a video chat all day as we did the many years previous in person.
What we don’t have is chronic interruptions from 30 different people in the office.
I do miss the social aspects of the office and meeting new people as they come onboard, but I wouldn’t trade it for the money and time I save not commuting, the ability to do household chores at any point it makes sense during the day, and the time I get to spend with my 7 month old at intervals through the day.
In my opinion there is literally zero need to return to the office. WFH has been HUGE for ppl with lives outside of work and it really is a win - win situation. Company gets more working hours out of us and the employee gets more of their life back.
To counter each of his arguments:
1. We are not children and therefore do not need our managers breathing down our necks to make sure we are working. As long as the job gets done
2. The employee not being chained to a desk in an office building has done wonders to work/life balance in an industry where most ppl until now had none
3. You can keep your foosball table.
They removed our foosball table because it was too loud for the boss lol
Live footage of BBDO
Rising Star
Uh, my work/life balance and separation is much better now than it was when I had to go to the office every day. YMMV.
WFH is here to stay. Smart agencies and leaders will recognize this. Other agencies and leaders won’t and will lose people. Also, for the first time in recent memory, agencies are struggling to find employees. For many of us having the flexibility to work from home will be a deal maker—or breaker.
If WFH didn’t work, freelance wouldn’t be a thing for so long. They know it works, but they also know it hits financially as a lot of positions become useless and they can’t charge clients as much as having the whole structure and 60% more people per project.
Vertical Storyteller, lol, does he mean presenter, that he tells a story while standing or what.
I’m something of a horizontal napper though, hence I prefer wfh.