Fairfax tells Best Places to Work organisers to tighten rules after complaints over UM’s win
BRW has told the organisers of its Best Places to Work award to tighten up their rules after receiving a formal complaint about media agency UM’s win in the under 100 staff category last week.
Organisers of the scheme the Great Place to Work Institute have now confirmed UM’s award was only for its Sydney office, contradicting its claim last week it was for its national network.
Fairfax Media’s business magazine has now demanded Great Places to Work clarifies the rules around companies being able to enter a single office, after rival agency Maxus lodged a complaint.
It is also understood another GroupM agency was told it could not enter as an individual office.
So why does it still say 3 sites for UM Sydney?
Did Mumbrella enter?
Hi Sour Grapes,
Thanks for your question.
No we didn’t enter the awards.
Cheers
Nic – Mumbrella
Well done BRW to finally admitting the error.
No disrespect to UM, who are obviously deserving of great recognition, but UM didnt pick the category it was awarded – this was an organiser stuff up. It can’t please UM to have its win tarnished by a story on whether it was in the right category or not (and the insinuations that it deliberately did this). The recognition that ought to go to them is now a little diminished to say the least..
Well done to Maxus as well for having the guts to complain about what is obviously an error – everyone else afraid to speak out it seems. Nothing for Maxus to gain here, they are 23rd on the list anyway.
The only one who looks silly in all of this is the GPTW organisation who previously assured everyone the award was for the UM national organisation.. which clearly it is not as UM has nearly 200 staff
So well done UM Sydney.. fantastic effort on your achievement as best workplace under 100 employees.
As an aside, would be interesting to know how UM Melbourne would fare on this list of best places to work..
Poor UM Melbourne, cut off so their sibling can get the recognition.