Agency = burnout - Senior Associate, Client Leadership Kantar Employee Review

-It's an agency; aka high stress, quick turnarounds, lots of ad hoc work, limited room for error, managing multiple accounts -Upper management was in meetings all day, so the people in middle management had to pick up the slack; they were account leads but were also often the experts on the day to day, so they were stretched thin. (I was more junior, but I could tell how hard those people were working) -I burnt out so badly; I swear that job would have killed me had I stayed any longer (though I should have known that I'm very much not cut out for agency work) -Constant turnover of middle management (at one point, I had an account where we had 100% turnover for the CL team and PL team (6-ish people) in one year - at least in part due to the lack of resources -Unclear direction/management due to mergers and acquisitions - lost 3 of 4 SVPs in the first year of working there -Outsourcing of the Data Design team meant that the US Client Leadership team had to pick up the slack from losing most of the US Data Design team -Talk the talk but don't walk the walk - there were lots of goals at the company that didn't end up coming to fruition e.g., inclusion and diversity