Allison Transmission

A One-Man Regime Run on a Culture of Fear and Self-Preservation If you ever want a case study of how to burn a fantastic company to the ground, look no further. It is a culture of fear.

The people, who seem to be dwindling by the day … The office is run by women who have so much to give and are incredibly experienced, but cower to the demands of men, particularly one who offers nothing to that office except complaints and a relentless push for AI. The only advice I can give is this: stop asking people to do more and actually listen to what they want. AI: We all know traditional PR is difficult right now, but forcing staff to use AI and tracking how much they use it, with punishment if they don’t use it enough, is taking it too far. The company cannot keep or foster talent because senior leadership claims this will help junior staff, when in reality it’s hurting their ability to learn what strategic and thoughtful materials actually look like. Senior leadership can’t even write an email or provide expertise on something they’re supposed to be well versed in without reaching out to the people who actually do the work. They kill budgets by using them for their allegedly necessary presence at client events.

Holding co culture differs from the reputation it had as an independent

Over the last year, Ray Day and Stagwell have slowly sucked all the life out of Allison and turned it into a cold, corporate environment where it has been made glaringly apparent how little they care for us. Allison has now had six layoffs in the past year and they decided hiring for the C-Suite was more important that building up support staff. Accounts are now increasingly short staffed on junior level employees, so higher ups are now expected to add admin duties to their plate on top of everything else.