How do you feel when your work tries to highlight “wins” after they’ve had layoffs? When is the appropriate amount of time do share “wins” after a layoff?

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Cynical but honest: I feel very little at this point because I’ve seen it happen so often. I don’t think agency leadership thinks layoffs detract from wins in any way. At the end of the day I don’t think they feel any genuine accountability to keeping people employed at all.

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Feel like it's less about time and more about how much they've addressed. Personally I don't want to hear about wins until I've gotten the post-mortem on why layoffs happened.

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I feel like they have addressed why folks were let go: Lost contracts we thought would be renewing due to funding cuts.

Do they think the pizza and cheap beer would help pay the rent?

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I think you have agency leadership who don’t have a true strategy to prosper in the new world order of AI and Marcom. Their numbers tell them to cut headcount but they also know they have to maintain some sense of business normalcy to present a glimmer of employee morale hence the helter skelter nature of management actions. It will only get worse until they figure stuff out.

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It’s a slap in the face. Just hold off on the celebrations until there’s something real to celebrate…aka a sense of stability and growth

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