Work Reform

Heard an ad for this pledge the other day while I was listening to a podcast and immediately thought this has got to be propaganda.

As somebody who has been struggling with a chronic health issue while continuing to work full time, I can understand why somebody would want their employer to be more understanding of how unpredictable chronic conditions can be...

But for fucks sake, the stress of work and people viewing your value based on what they think you should be doing for them is really the last thing people should be dealing with on top of being sick. Most people are forced to keep working just to survive and keep their health insurance.

Out of curiosity decided to look into the company that started this, and I have to say, their track record really doesn't help change my initial reaction.

Ad giant Publicis Health agrees to $350M settlement over claims it helped fuel opioid crisis

https://www.reddit.com/r/advertising/comments/1o049v3/publicis_exposed/

an ex-Publicis employee just exposed all the wrong everyone in this industry already knows. discrimination, retaliation, bad managers etc

Qorvis, a U.S. subsidiary of Publicis, has represented the country of Saudi Arabia since the September 11 attacks and has been accused of helping to whitewash its record on human rights.[27][28] More recently, the writer Ken Klippenstein obtained leaked documents from Qorvis, which show the PR company pitched a private company on a four to five minute propaganda video, which hoped to improve the reputation of its Homestead, Florida shelter for "unaccompanied alien children"

Based on their other controversies, they sure sound like typical corporate scumbags who profit from and enable fascism (and likely sex trafficking of children) while gaslighting the public and insisting any critics are just being dramatic/blowing things out of proportion.

Immigrant Youth Shelters: “If You’re a Predator, It’s a Gold Mine”