As small agencies expand, maintaining culture can be a challenge. McGarrah Jessee, an agency that threw a massive celebration complete with streamers and beach balls for its 100th employee, recently rounded out its team to 140 people.
Lots of agencies do interesting things for new hires—like Red Tettemer O’Connell + Partners, which has been known to carve their faces into the heads of crayons.
McGarrah Jessee in Austin, Texas, did something quite a bit more grandiose for Elliot Nordstrom’s first day. See, he is the agency’s 100th employee, which called for quite the celebration. Check out the video below.
The agency explains: “When we founded McGarrah Jessee 18 years ago, we were clear on what mattered: a uniquely productive and collaborative work culture. That meant slow and careful growth, adding the right people at the right time. Today, we added our 100th McJer at just the right time and thought it was fitting to celebrate that milestone with a twist on our usual new-hire orientation.”
Joel Clement’s search for a stateside agency is over. Today McGarrah Jessee announced that Clement, who most recently served as executive creative director at Saatchi & Saatchi Thailand, will join the Austin firm to “focus primarily on writing.”
This summer Clement announced his plans to leave the agency after eight years, eight months of which he spent as ECD and regional creative director for Saatchi & Saatchi’s Asia operations.
In the release, he clarifies that he “had a pretty specific ideal in mind” when planning his repatriation and that he “found it all at McGarrah Jessee.”
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