>Very weird to hire people to do work, and especially convincing them to leave their current job, when you don't have any work that needs to be done. Spec work

>Very weird to hire people to do work, and especially convincing them to leave their current job, when you don't have any work that needs to be done. Spec work and pitch work are very much a thing. As counterintuitive or infuriating as it may seem, having no paying clients doesn't mean there is no work to be done, in the agency world.