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Y&R Chicago Cuts a Handful

So the “big layoffs” that were apparently happening this week at Y&R Chicago weren’t as “big” as tipsters implied. Our sources have confirmed that Y&R Chicago has cut five staffers–three in creative, two on the account side–resulting from the “restructuring of departments under Bob Winter,” who of course came on board as the agency’s CCO’s last October.

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