OMD Sydney & Foxtel Media Offices Given The All-Clear As Coronavirus Test Proves Negative

OMD Sydney & Foxtel Media Offices Given The All-Clear As Coronavirus Test Proves Negative

The visiting English OMD employee that shut down OMD Sydney’s office and put a scare through nearby Foxtel Media following a suspected coronavirus diagnosis has been given the all-clear.

The unidentified staffer visited OMD’s Sydney office in Pyrmont early last week and also visited Foxtel Media’s offices up the road.

He later came down with flu symptoms having passed through Singapore en route to Australia.

As a precaution, OMD’s CEO Aimee Buchanan sent an email to all staff telling them to work from home on Friday and on Monday.

OMD closed its London office as a precaution last Wednesday for 48-hours until the man was diagnosed as negative.

This morning Omnicom Media Group CEO Australia and New Zealand Peter Horgan confirmed to B&T that the staffer was not carrying the COVID-19 virus.

A spokesperson for Foxtel Media also telling B&T that “following this good news its business as usual now for all staff at Foxtel Media”.

Meanwhile, in other coronavirus news, Google has instructed its 8000-strong Dublin office to work from home on yesterday as a “precautionary measure” and was in accordance with the advice of medical experts.

Twitter has recommended its 5,000 employees all begin working from home, while cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has asked that its employees who consider themselves susceptible to the flu also work from home.

 

 

 




Please login with linkedin to comment

coronavirus Foxtel media OMD

Latest News

Sydney Comedy Festival: Taking The City & Social Media By Storm
  • Media

Sydney Comedy Festival: Taking The City & Social Media By Storm

Sydney Comedy Festival 2024 is live and ready to rumble, showing the best of international and homegrown talent at a host of venues around town. As usual, it’s hot on the heels of its big sister, the giant that is the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, picking up some acts as they continue on their own […]

Global Marketers Descend For AANA’s RESET For Growth
  • Advertising

Global Marketers Descend For AANA’s RESET For Growth

The Australian Association of National Advertisers (AANA) has announced the final epic lineup of local and global marketing powerhouses for RESET for Growth 2024. Lead image: Josh Faulks, chief executive officer, AANA  Back in 2000, a woman with no business experience opened her first juice bar in Adelaide. The idea was brilliantly simple: make healthy […]