Layoffs won't help, Nielsen is well in its way out

The worst part about these layoffs is that the employees that do the real work are not to blame, Managers and Directors and up are!

The elephant in the room here is that Nielsen has lost big clients, that was unthinkable 3-5 years ago, they should ask themselves why it is happening now (do not blame the pandemic, if anything, people consume much more media during that time).

I remember when I joined how proud I was and how much work we did for our clients, I felt very good each day and wanted to actually go to work with my incredible team solving real and interesting problems, we were team and solution oriented in those days.

Then my team move to Slovenia and everything started going downhill, I know other teams had the same experience.

This company is disbanding and it has been for a while now, they are going to loose the US market and for sure they are fracturing the culture that I used to love about working here, there's not much left but to leave or be layoff...

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This is so true!

One of the things that is ki-ling Nielsen way before they announce to move the company offshore is that Managers and Directors by and large are not held accountable. They just prepare some d-mb document, lying about how well they are doing and their progress and that's how they move in this company.

At least the "Director" of my team has been ki-ling the team from inside for a long time now, he only listens to a few people and have total disrespect for the long time engineers that are telling him otherwise... people started leaving way before the layoffs announcement.

They should just fire all the managers and directors and let the engineers manage themselves, I'm sure it would be a lot better this way!

Also employees that do the real work aren't valued so down TNC goes....

I don't think this is unique to Nielsen, you'd be hard pressed to find a business laying people off because of the rank and file not doing their jobs. It's always management, the c suite, the quest for profits to be constantly increasing when there will always be a plateau on returns. The only way for them to become more profitable at this point is to reduce labor costs, which is necessarily going to require exploitation, either by increasing workloads for the same pay or by offshoring. It's lazy and greedy, and the quality of deliverables is on a steady decline. The most depressing part is that the people doing this to us will always land on their feet after hobbling Nielsen with their poor leadership.

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