Environment where no one can thrive - Anonymous employee Flywheel Digital Employee Review

1.0
May 6, 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Previous pros would be: work from home and flexible work hours (leadership stated 3 months ago there would be no return to office policy and then last week rolled out a return to office policy effective in less than a month) and a social culture (huge layoffs and the remaining good people either quitting or planning to quit has shifted the social element of work a good bit)

Cons

Leadership cannot maintain goals or values consistently for more than a month. Leadership cannot make promises with things related to work/life balance, salary, titles/promotions, company direction, organization structure etc. and actually keep them. Leadership has consistently lacked all communication skills and any transparency. Salary increases across the company are expected to fall below inflation and have taken several months to actually hit employee paychecks (as of posting this, they still haven't) while the company was able to 1. pay for most members of leadership to travel US, Europe, and Asia 2. pay for a full page print ad campaign in the NY Times (we're an online marketing company?) 3. pay for a a custom beer in our company name at a brewery local to one singular office. Benefits like medical, 401k, and stock options has been an absolute nightmare. HR struggles to do the bare minimum of their job and are terrible at communicating. From the top down, this people management team lacks all accountability. I would not recommend this company as a place to work at this time.

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Pros

Training opportunities, travel, large clients with large budgets

Cons

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1.0
Jun 8, 2026
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Pros

As in most agencies, the best part are the teammates who are on the trenches with you.

Cons

Steer clear. Go anywhere else. In the 3 years I was at Flywheel/TPN they went through no less than 5 mergers or reclassifications. Few of which ever meaningfully impacted the work, but actively drained the agency culture and morale. 4 rounds of layoffs that I remember. NO raises and only 1 review. And a baffling RTO policy that has little to do with collaboration and everything to do with commercial real estate tax benefits. Omni sucks the life out of these incredible agencies, taking decades of innovation and turning them into mere pawns. The leadership has no real authority and views workers not as people, but numbers. The "clean desk" policy means there's zero personality in the office. Because people are not rotated off old accounts there's not fresh perspective. High stress and there no chill. I've never cried so much at a job. Not used to coworkers being so rude, cold, and snappy. Omnicom is pushing AI and monitoring if you're using it regardless of whether it's necessary or makes sense for your role. There are better agencies out there, go apply there and leave Flywheel to fix their model.

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