Ooh Media’s Brendon Cook: ‘We made a commitment to our teams to ensure the least number of jobs were impacted’

Ooh Media boss Brendon Cook says the business focused on making sure the least number of roles would be cut during the COVID-19 pandemic by waiting until last week to make its 22 redundancies rather than a ‘knee jerk reaction’ at the beginning of the pandemic.

“We only had one redundancy round, in the middle of August, because we made a decision in early March to see what this all meant. So we put a freeze on rehiring staff to fill roles which opened in the natural movement of people who did resign which meant, in the end, we were able to limit the redundancies to 22, but it’s around 50 different jobs that haven’t been filled,” Cook told Mumbrella.

Ooh Media’s results for the six months to January 30, 2020 [click to enlarge]