Comment by grandempire
1 year ago
This is an interesting idea. I started in agencies and this is indeed a problem.
It’s a good start for junior people to get experience but they tend not to stay long.
It also attracts people who can do it all - design, programming, animation, etc who become stars, and then wonder why they aren’t working for themselves.
Generalists like that also tend to navigate poor management well (also very common) because they remove the need to be managed.
The agencies I was at came to the opposite conclusion - why do we even have employees instead of contractors? Which never really worked out.
> It also attracts people who can do it all - design, programming, animation, etc who become stars, and then wonder why they aren’t working for themselves.
This is why you promote to full partner all the time. The people who wonder why they aren't working for themselves should answer "I will have all the advantages of working for myself, plus the advantages of partners for the few places that matter". If you don't promote to partner you lose all the effort you put into training that person if you did you get someone who can help you once in a while.