Don't you think there are some bad managers and employees at Niesen that maybe should have been terminated long ago but were perhaps protected by their friend bosses or nopotism? If the bad workers got laid off, then who cares? What percentage of the bad do you think got laid off vs. the good? Do you think something like maybe 30% bad and 70% good? What is your guess?
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Except good managers were laid off. They made departments run the way they do today, and contributed a lot of time and effort so there's organization to certain roles. Everyone knows what they have to do because of these managers. No one deserves to be laid off, especially like that.
None. I'll tell you why. Nielsen has been laying off people from the Habib era, every year. I am speaking of the App Dev and Product areas. The bad managers and bad employees have, for the most part, been laid off in the continual layoffs year after year, month after month. You had the cream of the crop left, and they were not safe.
Former Nielsen. Got my walking papers a few years back (thankfully). Of course some people who underperform should be let go but from what my linkedin is showing, tons of people with mountains of experience are being let go. I'm talking even admins with 40+ yrs at the company. That's a disgrace. I was around for the 2006-09 layoffs when the company was trying to go public along with the financial disaster, and this round of layoffs appears to be worse than the ones back then! But to no surprise, I see that there's still many cockroaches inside Nielsen that continue to somehow survive decades of cuts. We've all worked with some of them...the ones clearly kissing butt at every opp. Hey, whatever works.
No one ever “deserves” to be laid off. It’s just the wealthy playing games with people’s lives and their ability to survive. It isn’t “just a job” to some people. For some it’s place of refugee when home life is chaotic and abusive. For some it’s a sense of stability in a life that has been anything but. For some it’s food in the fridge when more often than not in their life that wasn’t a certainty. It’s the ability to pay for medically necessary monthly medications. It’s financial independence after years of a toxic controlling marriage. It’s being a productive tax paying member of the community after years of not being able to be that. It’s being around coworkers that have grown to be closer than family after 10+ years. It was something that some people were extremely proud to call theirs and NO ONE deserves to have those things just taken from them so a private equity firm can make a business look more profitable in less than 5 years so they take the company public again and hope to make a profit on their bet. These are real people with real lives and real struggles we’re talking about. Not numbers on a spreadsheet. Don’t forget that.
To answer you main Q ~ None. They should have been performance managed up or out under a clearly stipulated and uniformly administered HR process that prevents favoritism and/or nepotism.
Using 'poor performance', after the fact, as an excuse to justify the moves this company is making conveniently disguised as 'job eliminations' is, in poor taste - to say the least.
Speaking of poor taste... Who cares? - Clearly not the OP nor any of the wrecking crew dismantling this company. The lack of integrity is appalling to those that possess it.