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#DetoxWork: Ad professionals make allegations against employers, agencies respond | Advertising


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Recently, Cheil India and its biggest client, Samsung, were in hot water after the agency’s ex-employee – Rahul Bhatnagar – put up a LinkedIn post blaming the agency for keeping offices open in the middle of India’s raging second Covid-19 wave. He alleged that this led to two employee deaths while some more members of the staff were fighting for their lives. 
 
Bhatnagar didn’t name Cheil in the post itself but added #CheilIndia as a hashtag at the end. The post went viral, leading to #DetoxWork trending on LinkedIn. Several advertising industry professionals weighed in with their thoughts, calling out advertising’s age-old ‘toxic culture’ involving unrealistic deadlines and client expectations, poor time management, general disregard and lack of processes leading to poor work-life balance, which all end up affecting employees’ physical and mental health. These factors have further been compounded by the pandemic, with work f ....

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