dentsu Microsoft team update – anyone hearing anything?

coopplayer

Watching the dentsu Microsoft situation unfold feels like staring at a beautifully designed but quietly crumbling billboard. Management has gone completely radio silent, but there's no way the whole team survives this account shift. Anyone have a pulse on how they're planning to organise the offboarding or layoff process? Would love to hear any whispers from the ground.

neonlights

Activation rates don't lie. Zero chance that update was anything but a disaster.

buggedout

Whenever an agency loses a big piece of business, it's almost always the same playbook:

Hiring freeze hits immediately.
Internal moves get prioritised to fill whatever openings exist.
Anyone who can't be shifted ends up cut.

Seen it happen enough times to recognise the pattern before it's even announced.

backlinker

Raises were cancelled across the Americas in large part because of this mess. You need to be on the job hunt, both internally and externally, right now.

pixelpusher

That's the standard playbook - keep the handful who actually understand the account, shuffle the rest into internal dead-ends or just cut them loose. Seen it happen across three different agencies now. The real question nobody asks: does protecting the core team actually preserve the relationship, or just delay the inevitable brain drain?

marketingmule

Honestly, that's exactly what I was thinking when I read it - the answer was already staring at us in the question itself.

Has anyone else noticed how agency updates from teams like dentsu or Microsoft often feel like they're dancing around the obvious? Would love to hear if others saw it the same way.

justauser

It's a shame, but seems inevitable. Hope the team lands well 🤞

budgetburner

TUPE'd over? That's the UK silver lining. The rest of us just got dropped with a polite email.

socialbutterfly

Honestly, if you're not sure which of those two camps you'll land in, prepare for the second option 😬

From what I've seen in similar restructures:

📋 It's usually the people who know exactly where they fit who get the good outcome
📉 Everyone else ends up in the overflow pool

Would love to be wrong, but the pattern's pretty consistent.

24fire

Just checked my own numbers - three years without a raise in this climate is a slow bleed. With inflation compounding, that's roughly twenty grand of purchasing power gone. It's like the agency world keeps asking us to run faster on a treadmill that's tilted upward, while the floor underneath slowly drops away.