Have any agencies announced what they’re planning to do re: reopening? Not just in the short term, but for good—in other words, will they follow suit with Apple, Facebook and Twitter, where remote work will be more widely accepted, if even a few days a week?

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There are still some needy managers or dept heads who feel they can’t “manage” if they can’t physically see everyone.
I think some are also just extroverts who want more social interaction and/or to feel like a “boss” vs having real work concerns.

Perhaps this will show we need less managers.

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Most people’s definition of managing is making sure people clock (at least) 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week.

So if they can’t keep track of this, they literally don’t know what to do with themselves.

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I’m curious to see how it evolves.
Certainly the work from home forced “proof of concept” over the last 3 months has shown it’s not just viable but preferable and more efficient for many roles.
My company has not openly addressed this but I know it’s being discussed.

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My agency has been really proactive about all of this.

They’ve acknowledged that no one at the company feels comfortable going back to the office until there’s a vaccine/some other form of immunity.

They’ve also acknowledged that post-Covid, people will want to work remotely more of the time and meet in-person only when it’s actually valuable to do so.

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What agency is this

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I think a key consideration and variance person to person is really what your home office situation is.

Eg: a multiple roommate situation in a tiny manhattan apt or with kids is hugely different than an actual quiet dedicated home office space in your large private home in Connecticut. As an example!

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Yes, this! Plus, childcare / how open (or not) schools will be.

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This might be controversial, but I kinda don’t care what my company’s policy is. My health and the health of my family and whether or not and how I would put myself at risk is 100% my call. Until there’s a viable and accessible treatment and/or vaccine, I truly don’t give a rats ass what the policy is.

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I agree.

Not sure either. Pretty sure no one knows what to do. No real model for working in an office and WFH seems to be working fine for most.

I saw a floor plan last week that actually consolidated the space to make up for agency financial issues. So, as I said, pretty sure no one knows what they’re doing.

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If this recession/ pandemic drags on you will see agencies close physical offices altogether. They are just burning money unnecessarily .

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Publicis is WFH (unless an exceptional reason) for the rest of 2020

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This is going to be interesting between markets.

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I wonder if the consolidated/less space is based on assuming less people coming in.

But agree, no one has a clear plan. Maybe understandably given we are all making this up as we go.

Personally I want to see many more virtual offices/wfh as the standard.

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I assume so. Wondering if it moves to more of a shared workspace model where, say, IPG has X,000 seats/work stations and X00 conference rooms throughout the metro area for all their agencies (I’m in NYC) and you can book/use the spaces as necessary.

Then people work a handful of days together the rest remotely. It would literally save millions of dollars that could go into staff and more competitive salaries.

I loathed WFH before this, but the viability is pretty real even post-Covid as we have a pretty good proof of concept going.

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Some of our agencies are closed until after labor day

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I’m planning on finding a role that lets me work remote and then move out of the country.

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My agency is going to continue to give us the option to WFH

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