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Omnicom Media Group NA Taps Katie Klein as Chief Investment Officer

Omnicom Media Group (OMG) is bringing on PHD exec Katie Klein as chief investment officer, it shared with ADWEEK. Klein previously held the same role at subsidiary PHD USA. In her three years there, she built an integrated investment arm serving clients including Burger King, Delta Airlines, Diageo, Priceline, Uber, and Volkswagen Group. Prior to...

How Publicis Won The Data Wars, and What Omnicom-IPG Must Do To Have A Shot

The data unit Epsilon has emerged as one of Publicis Groupe's biggest weapons of its recent success, helping its stock soar nearly 70% since the beginning of 2023. "Epsilon and Publicis Media operation are now totally intertwined and at the heart of our connected media ecosystem," CEO Arthur Sadoun told investors in its Q3 earnings...

Tools of the Trade: Jarron Vosburg of JumpCrew

Tools of the Trade is a feature to help highlight the many tools that help make advertising and marketing folks successful. The tools can be anything that helps people perform at their top form, from a favorite drafting table to the best software program to a lucky pen, a vintage typewriter or a pair of...

Mischief Is β€˜Unignorable’ as ADWEEK’s 2024 Midsize Agency of the Year

For Greg Hahn, co-founder and chief creative officer of Mischief @ No Fixed Address, the riskiest thing a brand can do is be "ignorable." Mischief's own brand of creativity has been hard to ignore the past few years. Producing brave work for clients, from Goldfish's "Chilean Sea Bass" rebrand to Coors Light's "Time Capsule" spot,...

Amazon ignored internal studies on injuries, Senate investigation claims

For years, reporting has claimed employees and contractors at Amazon's warehouses are injured at unusually high rates, often attributed to a high pace of work. On Sunday, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions published an investigation that claims Amazon's own internal research reached similar conclusions β€” and then ignored them, The New York TimesΒ reported.

The Senate Committee, chaired by Senator Bernie Sanders, published its 160-page report, which among other things, details the results of two internal Amazon initiatives meant to study worker injuries: Project Elderwand and Project Soteria. The former identified an upper bound of repetitive motions workers could perform before substantial risk of injury would occur, and noted that current quotes were above that rate. The latter indicated a link between work speed and injury. Both studies recommended relaxing the pace of work, but executives chose not to do so.

Amazon spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said that Sanders’ report used what she called "out-of-date documents" (the studies were conducted in 2020 and 2021). She continued saying that Amazon’s work environment has improved recently, and that a Washington State judge had rejected allegations that Amazon required its employees to work in an unsafe environment.

Amazon was cited last year by OSHA at half a dozen warehouses for "failing to keep workers safe." An investigation by the Washington Post in 2021 found Amazon warehouse workers are seriously injured at a rate nearly twice that of the warehousing industry at large; it echoed similar findings by Reveal from 2019.

This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/amazon-ignored-internal-studies-on-injuries-senate-investigation-claims-144611988.html?src=rss

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PRODUCTION - 27 November 2024, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Dummerstorf: In Amazon's new logistics center, industrial trucks are on the move in the high-bay warehouse. The new center was officially opened in September. Around 500 people currently work at the site, and this figure is set to rise to 1,000 in the future. Around 1 million items are currently stored at the site. Photo: Bernd WΓΌstneck/dpa (Photo by Bernd WΓΌstneck/picture alliance via Getty Images)

WPP CEO Mark Read Tells Staff Omnicom-IPG Deal Is β€˜Good News For Us’

WPP boss Mark Read has described Omnicom Group's acquisition of Interpublic Group (IPG) as a "moment of opportunity" for the U.K.-based ad network, urging employees to keep delivering for clients "without distractions." "Clients will not have missed the fact that, in the last week or two, several of our competitors have spent a lot of...

Havas Is Officially a Public Company

Havas is now officially an independent, publicly traded business following a successful spin-off from parent company Vivendi. On Monday (Dec. 16), the agency network debuted on the Euronext Amsterdam exchange with a valuation of $2.6 billion (EUR2.5 billion). Havas has been under Vivendi's management since its acquisition in 2017, operating alongside sister companies including French...

Deutsch Elevates Four Department Leaders to its C-Suite

Amidst the news of Omnicom Group and Interpublic Group's (IPG) merger, IPG agency Deutsch announced it is promoting four department leaders to its C-suite. Ivan Perez-Armendariz will become chief digital officer; Heide Peper Hays will become chief data and intelligence officer; Diego de la Maza will become chief production officer; and Lauren Tetuan will become...

IPG Mediabrands To Lay Off 103 Staffers

IPG Mediabrands plans to lay off 103 people on Jan. 2., according to a WARN notice filed in the state of California. The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act requires companies with 100 or more employees to provide notifications of facility closures or mass layoffs 60 calendar days in advance. IPG Mediabrands filed the WARN...

The Holding Companies Have Lost Their High Groundβ€”Here Are Some Reasons Why

As much as the story has generated a lot of buzz, I find the news of Omnicom's acquisition of IPG to be unsurprising and part of the natural order. I am sad for the great agency legacies that will be mothballed. I am sad for the jobs that will be cut. I am sad that...

Don’t Get Used to Being β€˜Top Dog’ Post Omnicom-IPG Deal, Arthur Sadoun Tells Publicis Staff

Publicis Groupe chief executive (CEO) Arthur Sadoun has addressed Omnicom Group's acquisition of Interpublic Group (IPG) in a video memo circulated to its 107,000-plus employees. In his speech, Sadoun cautioned staff not to get too comfortable being the world's biggest holding group by revenues and predicted the deal would be "positive for the industry at...

Omnicom-IPG’s Strong AI Front Could Protect Against a Big Tech Takeover

On December 13, 1996, Miller Beer pulled all its business out of Leo Burnett, literally overnight. Officially, it was about lackluster sales, but rumors abounded that Miller discovered a subsidiary of Burnett had taken a small project from Anheuser-Busch, and Miller was livid. Now that holding companies own a huge part of the advertising landscape,...

What the Omnicom-IPG Mega-Merger Could Mean for Agency Talent and Clients

The recent announcement of Omnicom's acquisition of IPG got me thinking about my early days working for both holding companies. I started my career in media at BBDO, buying television. Back then, media and creative worked together under one roof, and holding companies were only beginning to consolidate their power. It was a simpler time...

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