Pros
I left before they had major lay-offs in Houston, so that is a Pro.
Cons
• First, they separated clients into tiers based off of factors I won't go into. Suffice it to say, Houston got the most difficult yet lowest monetary yielding clients. That was the beginning of the end.....Design team in Houston has been let go. all work is getting outsourced to the other locations to get built. There have been random lay offs, 25+ year people getting the boot, across the entire organization. • THEN, I hear thousands of accounts are getting moved out of Houston and less than 100 being brought in. Yeah, if you are looking for a coordinator job.....and there is a job posting in Houston (due to the high turnover rate of new employees getting the heck out when they see how much crap they have to put up with AND the layoffs) DON'T take it.......unless you just need work for a few months. It won't take long before that office is shut down. The writing is on the wall. • Digital is JUST now taking off......in the Livonia office. The rest of the locations do not do digital work. • Not sure if this is something that will end with Houston, or if Harland Clarke is slowly getting rid of Valassis as a whole. I would not be surprised if there is only one Valassis location in 5-10 years.
