What is the career benefit of being at a holding company these days? Genuinely curious. Not buying the stability story either.

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It's only beneficial to leadership. But they eventually get tossed out too.

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I’ve worked at multiple independents and hold cos. Miles better benefits at indies and it’s not even close

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HOLDCO’s were never more secure, although I would argue it is much easier to “hide” there, even if you aren’t very good at your job— I witnessed that quite a bit. HOLDCO’s tend offer more career opportunities across a much broader swath of client types. It seems of late HOLDCO’s have been trimming benefits (and people) to be more profitable to Wall Street which brings us to one of the biggest benefits of working at an Indy. They aren’t beholden to quarterly earnings and can actually make decisions that are in the best interest of their employees versus putting Wall Street first.

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Only thing i think they had going for them is there are a lot of big name accounts to cut your teeth on. Other than that, it’s all bollocks

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Barely any. HC’s used be stable. Now leadership will lay you off if the wind blows.

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Right now not much. None of the three are doing great and at least ours has indefinite freezes on raises and promotions.

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Yes.

And shortly after that got announced, news of Arthur Sadoun's 20% raise broke. You can imagine how that went over.

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Maybe training when you’re a junior. If they still hire those.

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A salary.

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It pays more at the senior levels

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4 months paid mat/pat leave. 6 figure salary. Consistent 40-45 hour/week workload. Unlimited PTO that’s actually respected. Tons of other resources & benefits including childcare reimbursement. Fully remote. Internal upward mobility if you make a name for yourself. Name recognition if I want a new job. Genuinely don’t know what more I could ask for lol

Name recognition? Do you no longer work at dentsu? ;) I kiiiid.

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