Ad Age
Oct 1, 2020
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These executives survived the Zoom job interview, but haven’t met their teams in person and still don’t know the office layout
Starting a new job in a pandemic means being your own IT person and none of your co-workers actually knowing just how tall you are.
COVID-19 lockdowns have upended the job market, with thousands in the ad world receiving pink slips since March. But amid all of the layoff news, there are ad professionals who have interviewed and started new jobs without ever having met their teams in person or stepped into their new office building.
“Agencies are suffering, verticals like travel were suffering, but social platforms, video, technology platforms were surviving, if not thriving, and it was eye-opening to see an acceleration of what kind of companies would grow after COVID,” Winkler says.