Layoffs...
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- olli1010
^ that's true. At my company, they laid everyone off on Friday afternoon. Cheeky!
- megE0
We laid off 6 people yesterday :\ very sad
Hopefully that was enough to make it through the holidays and then work will pickup
- fooler20
3 people laid off this morning out of about 60. 1 Senior Designer and 2 PM's. They even said more to come after the Holidays.
- Humanhand0
Got layed off recently from a small to mid size agency. My guy tells me there is always something out there. Gotta keep it tight like Rocky till then.
- kult0
This agency actually keeps on hiring people. A staggering amount of them. It blows my mind.
- scarabin_net0
thank god people still go to the movies
i haven't seen any film advertising designers go down yet
- mimeartist_com0
- i think we're well past the "this whole thing was invented by the media" point.Khurram
- BaskerviIle0
I'm in London too. My agency has had two rounds of layoffs already, luckily I've survived this far
- 23kon0
print will be the first to get hit likes
- rodzilla0
In Ohio we've had 9 people laid off. only about 50-70 people working here.
- only!!Dancer
- there were only 13 designers. 3 got laid off. the rest were part of other departments. lay offs are terrible.rodzilla
- 50 to 70? how many are there?mimeartist_com
- sorry, I must not have worded any of my statement correctly. 9 people laid off total. We have 50-70 in the comapnyrodzilla
- probably closer to 50 nowrodzilla
- what company? Resource? Engauge? Shift? Integrate?rainman
- Mcdonalds?kuttyranks
- Not Resource. We laid off 15 or so earlier this year. None since.ChankD
- SkyPoo0
I contacted an old friend about two weeks ago who works (or rather, worked) at Identica. They have apparently been strimming the workforce down on a regular basis to keep the wolf from the door. My friend was one of the next wave to be jettisoned that very week, its now a very small company by comparison to its heyday, or so I'm told.
- Fariska0
I'm in a pretty small company and we have clients which are unrelated to finance and real estate. And we're pitching way more work than we can allow to do to keep the whole thing ok. Things seems ok for the next year.
- mimeartist_com0
I didn't say it was invented... but when the news is full of it I don't think it helps.
- XB120
Agency of about 80 peeps... off 13 :( 3 interactive designers, 2 programmers and the rest accounts peeps.
- modern0
We're doing fine just hired some people, could do with hiring more instead of using fucking whining flash freelancers
- sounds like a fun agencymimeartist_com
- haha aye.mistermik
- refunktion0
i got laid off from a small industrial design and branding firm, sigh.
- Jimbo820
I'm in London and work for a company of about 30 people, is there an order to these things? Like a last in first out basis? We've got 4 free lancers working for us at the moment, one assumes they'll be first if the shit hits the fan. We had a meeting the other day where the MD told us all that next year is going to be tough and we're going to be looking for more work overseas. Things aren't looking too great, still, it could be worse, we could be bankers!
- Usually when layoff due to financial issues happen its last in - first out, and lose freelancers...ximeraLabs
- auejim0
i have heard about 3 companies lay off people last week in london so I imagine this is the start.
- olli1010
Jimbo82 - yeah, the freelancers were the first to go with us. Perms are unaffected.
- emecks0
It's not all bad news, I've got more work thanks to the credit crunch :D