Dentsu Aegis Southeast Asia HR managers exit
Dentsu Aegis Network is letting go its human resources manager for Southeast Asia and another member of the same team has resigned, Mumbrella understands.
Kaumudi Goda, Southeast Asia HR manager for Dentsu Aegis Network, is to move on after less than a year in the job.
Her departure comes about a month after the exit of four members of the Southeast Asia team reporting to Dentsu Aegis Network CEO Dick van Motman.
She was to begin reporting into new boss Kinch Ong, the APAC head of HR, but was yesterday told that she would no longer be working for the company.
She previously reported to Southeast Asia head of HR Ujjwal Sarao, who was part of Van Motman’s team that was merged with the APAC function reporting to Dentsu Aegis Network regional boss Nick Waters in January.
Also moving on is Yuen Keong Nyan, a regional HR manager and part of the Southeast Asia team, who is resigning after nine months with the agency.
Dentsu Aegis declined to comment on the moves.
In an analysis piece published a few weeks ago, Mumbrella reported that the removal of Dentsu Aegis Network’s Southeast Asia team was politically motivated and not – as was stated in an email to staff at the time – to “eliminate duplicate costs”.
According to sources at the company, there is a struggle for power between Dentsu Inc and Dentsu Aegis Network for control of the network in APAC, a contention both parties deny.
A trained lawyer, Goda joined in April 2015 after a two-year spell at Deloitte, where she was talent manager. Yuen came on board from Richemont.
The news emerges on the day that Dentsu Aegis announced it has bought New Zealand agency Barnes, Catmur & Friends, the latest in a string of acquisitions the company has made in Asia Pacific in recent months.
…is a deloitte hr person doing recruiting for an ad network….they are just right brained individuals with no insights into the softer skills that comprise the bulk of this business.
ReplySorry the phrase in my above comment should read ‘left brained’.
ReplyExpect a lot of businesses directly or indirectly associated with Dentsu Aegis to start firing people at random.
ReplyIs this happening? I see clients commenting TODAY on Mumbrella’s Game of Thrones article from last week expressing serious concerns. How tone deaf and color blind does the management then have to be to ignore all that and keep on firing staff as if its just another Tuesday. Incredible. And I can’t seem to stop watching.
ReplyExpect no sympathy for any foreigners let go from any ad agencies’ offices in singapore…the locals are pissed to the limits with this trend….a foreigner is hired to a top HR job and their first move is to hire more people from their own country instead of carefully examining the local talent pool…as if there are no competent HR practitioners to be found locally.
ReplyThis isn’t cost cutting; its personal. This is picking people off, one by one. They’ve been doing it for weeks. People seen as too close to one camp, or not cooperating with the camp running what passes for this network.
Anyone will tell you if you have to make staff adjustments because of costs, do it in one go and communicate communicate communicate. This lot are doing none of that. Not a single communication to staff since this process started; everyone getting all their information from mumbrella and just waiting for the glossy piece of spin which we’re all expecting in a competitor publication, because that’s how these people think.
Meanwhile, everyone wakes up wondering “am I next today?” and looking at their close colleagues with sympathy that they’re all thinking the same thing. And looking at people from HR knowing they’ve been appointed as the executioner but also knowing they’re on the block themselves. “Thank you for firing people, now you’re fired”. What a sick, sorry organisation…
Oh and to the IT teams, I know you’re monitoring these posts. At least one person has gone because they are suspected of posting. Monitor all you like, but there are ways to ensure some of us will not be silenced…
ReplyHope the guys at Barnes, Catmur and Friends know what they’ve got themselves into? Still, I guess NZ is far away enough to be out of sight, out of mind. Or at least that’s what they hope?
ReplyWow mate, you sound just like edward snowden….what a dangerous, on the edge life you must lead.
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