Thousands sign petition calling on ad titan WPP to rethink its 4-day RTO demand
Employees at WPP are pushing back against the company's new four-day RTO mandate.A public petition calling for the firm to revoke its policy has gained thousands of signatures.Shares in the company ...
WPP CEO Mark Read dreams of ‘getting closer’ to the U.S. amid workforce anger over RTO mandate
Despite expansion plans, 2025 could prove tricky for WPP's Read as he rolls out an unpopular RTO mandate.
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Global ad giant WPP issues sweeping RTO mandate for its 114,000 staff, calling them back to office 4 days a week
regardless of which agency within WPP they belong to, excluding those with existing remote work contracts in place. Read added, however, that a tighter RTO mandate "doesn’t mean we’re going back to ...
‘It has left us reeling’ – WPP managers on enforcing the 4-day return-to-office mandate
Chief executive Mark Read said the move would protect the company’s culture. A 15,000-strong petition suggests staff feel ...
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WPP employees push back on return-to-office policy with petition
The petition reads: “WPP, the world-renowned advertising company, has recently implemented a policy of making employees return to the office for at least four days a week. This mandate comes from CEO ...
'A Step Backwards in Employee Support': WPP Staff Fire Back On Four-Day Office Return Mandate
A Change.org petition was set up by current WPP employees, who are disgruntled with the company's recent RTO mandate.
Plenty of agencies are tightening hybrid policies, but few match WPP’s 4 office days
A straw poll of ad shops for our Agency Advice series shows many ad execs sympathetic to Mark Read’s return-to-office ...
JPMorgan Faces Staff Backlash After Return-to-Office Mandate
The financial giant has disgruntled workforce and has a potential unionization on its hands as it forces staff into the ...
World's biggest advertising company WPP suffers staff backlash over four-day office mandate
Thousands have signed a petition imploring the world's biggest advertising agency to revoke a new rule forcing employees to ...
Britain’s biggest bookseller just thanked RTO mandates for bumper 2024 book sales
Waterstones, Britain’s largest book chain, has become an unlikely winner amid a slew of return-to-office mandates gripping ...
WPP upgraded to Buy from Hold at Kepler Cheuvreux
Kepler Cheuvreux analyst Conor O’Shea upgraded WPP (WPP) to Buy from Hold with a price target of 935 GBp, up from 845 GBp. The firm says the ...
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WPP employees push back on return to office mandate
WPP employees have pushed back on the agency's four-day office return mandate. The employees, under the user 'Concerned WPP employees', have created a petition demanding the agency revoke its mandate.