Sherwin-Williams hits pause on HQ worker videos

These are screenshots from videos taken by a construction worker from near
the top of the new Sherwin-Williams’ headquarters tower. The footage made
a Cleveland ex-pat feel pride in his native city — so much that he compiled a
video from them that he wanted to share publicly. But Sherwin-Williams’ exe-
cutives didn’t agree with his decision. They told him to remove the video and
barred workers’ onsite photography (Holden Gibbons).
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After a construction worker’s videos from the top of the new Sherwin-Williams’ headquarters tower in Downtown Cleveland were posted on YouTube by a friend, the global coatings giant told the friend to delete the video and has clamped down on workers taking pictures of views from the construction site. This comes at a time when tradespeople complained to NEOtrans of an oppressive work environment and harkened back to a paint-mixing TikTok star who was fired four years ago by Sherwin-Williams.

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