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disclosing collaboration without damaging relationship

disclosing collaboration without damaging relationship

I am currently at the start of my career, and took a job at agency A a few years ago. I like my job and boss at agency A, a year ago we concluded that instead of being directly employed at agency A, I should be employed at company B, which leases me to agency A (this is typical in my department, the main reason behind this is that A tries to form better connections with local companies). I am now employed at B, but all my working hours are still at agency A. I still like my job, I am payed mostly by agency A, which pays company B to employ me (again, this is a typical setup). Next to my agency duties I actively try to search projects that A and B can do together, which is the reason why B agreed to employ me.

The problem here: one of my current projects involves dealing with company C, a competitor (not really, they operate in the same field, but offer different products) to B, but I know that the people at B do not like company C (in my opinion this is mostly based on envy, not on practical reasons, their fields of intrest mostly don't overlap that much). I have told my boss at agency A that I do not feel comfortable working with C when I know that they do not like B. I actively tried to convince my boss at agency B to instead hand over the project partly to company B (I don't think they would be the ideal partner for this project, but the project could be done in a cooperation between B and C, which is what I proposed. B could not do it alone, C can), he was okay with that, but that attempt was stopped by his boss.

Am I overthinking this? I would like to continue working at agency A, and raising that concern to B could lead to problems on both ends (and I do not think my boss at agency A wants that). Both A and B are happy with my current work as far as I know. I want to disclose my work to C to so that both ends are happy. How should I do this? Moreover, both A and B want a good and productive relationship which each other.



Top Answer/Comment:

Your primary allegiance and responsibility lies with the company who is your actual employer. You may want to let your manager at B know that the project with A now involves C and leave it at that. Unless you are some kind of account manager (which I don't think you are) it's not your job to get involved in deciding who should or shouldn't be working on a project.

If company A wants to involve company C, that is their choice and you should continue to do the work they ask of you. Part of your responsibility to your employer, company B, is to not damage their relationship with their client, company A. It's not your place to decide whether or how company C should be involved in the project

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