u/BoobyMcFarterson

I’ve been seeing longtime IPG employees clashing with longtime OMC employees, mostly over process change in every department—account, strat, PM, creative, shared services, etc. My experience so far has been “This is what we’ve been doing at OMC and you’re doing it too (whether you like it or not).” (Again, a reminder that this was a buyout and not a merger.)

The IPG model of network integration and processes made sense to me. This new version of OMC seems to be every agency for themselves. Are any leftover IPG employees feeling this? I’m also wondering if original OMC employees are seeing a culture clash too.

OMC higher ups are finally rolling out their processes now that we’re all rebranded, and maybe it’s agency dependent, but reporting structures are changing (Head of PM reporting to Head of Account? RegOps in the Creative structure?) to be OMC-people favorable and solid processes that won IPG business (away from OMC agencies, mind you) are being changed to reflect how THEY work. Each agency is now considered its own entity instead of the “connected capabilities” we once used to espouse (which I thought made us more attractive)

I know this is a takeover acquisition, not a merger, but I haven’t found any major OMC decision-maker working with a major legacy IPG player to hash out which processes and policies are best for ALL employees. Do they all really follow Wren’s lead?

I never saw myself saying this 2 years ago, but Dana at OH is useless now.

For residents who have UnitedHealthcare and primarily use Main Line Health facilities, if an agreement isn’t reached by June 30th, do you know which in-network providers you’ll try to find? Or just keep going to MLH and pay OON costs?

Omnicom HSA's policy (since I last saw the fine print) was that it would contribute something like $300/yr or $75/qtr (at the end of the qtr). I don't recall it mentioning the contributions as discretionary. Did anyone with an HSA get a quarterly contribution from Omnicom at the end of March/early April?