The Week: WPP orders freeze on hiring staff until February 2009
WPP has reacted to the deepening financial crisis by ordering a freeze on all hirings until further notice.
In an e-mail to senior staff and seen by Campaign, the group, whose
agency empire includes JWT, Ogilvy & Mather and Mindshare, cites
clients' decisions to hold back on marketing spend as the reason for its
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Sorrell, has ordered that any job offers made but not accepted must be
withdrawn immediately.
The freeze, which will not be reappraised until after next February's
budget reviews, applies to all staff, regardless of salary or role, and
includes replacement hires and open positions.
In its e-mail, the group points to what it says has been a dramatic
change in government and consumer sentiment in the past few weeks.
"Preliminary results for September show another month in which even our
recently prepared forecasts for revenues have not been achieved," it
says.
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