Honestly, it's ridiculous how those on the top keep thinking that the company can keep functioning as always even if they keep reducing the number of employees more and more. It's not hard to figure out that you not only need employees, but you need good employees to run a company. And yet they keep cutting the best. I really do believe there is a good future for Nielsen, but the way it's being run right now, the tales of its demise will become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Arthur Nielsen would be rolling over in his grave if he was able to see what was happening to his company. My guess is last quarter of year earning will show that the offshoring of work was an incredibly foolish idea. You get what you pay for.
Then they went out of their way sending important projects to remote countries that have no idea of what is actually needed (or don't even care) and everything started falling apart
Totally agree, I feel more and more alien to the project and solution that I actually help in many ways to build!
If this is true than name him/her to higher authorities in the hierarchy instead of spitting on all the other 29 who are fighting on the same side as you.
It won't do anything and the point is exactly that I shouldn't have to! In a tight environment (as seen not long ago at Nielsen) when people work together across the entire company, things would just flow and products would be delivered; that's how Nielsen got their competitive advantage. Then they went out of their way sending important projects to remote countries that have no idea of what is actually needed (or don't even care) and everything started falling apart, Nielsen is not even the shadow of what it once was...
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If this is true than name him/her to higher authorities in the hierarchy instead of spitting on all the other 29 who are fighting on the same side as you.
It will be interesting to see what happens when the remaining process leads no longer have the hourly employees to blame for their mistakes.
It's really funny how you accuse the Slovenian team of 30 people of being responsible for the situation in Nielsen.
It takes only 1 employee in a position of power (or with the illusion of power) to bring down an entire project and sometimes an entire company!
It's really funny how you accuse the Slovenian team of 30 people of being responsible for the situation in Nielsen, while they are managed from the American side. Last but not least, the current situation with layoffs has also affected them, and they are fighting in the same line as you, ladies and gentlemen.
So, your fact is that 30 employees (quote: ''all this Slovenians'') out of 14,000 (before Nielsen split into two, 40,000) worldwide are responsible for the current situation? What a joke!
just wait until areas other than ops and tech are 'transitioned'. Media knowledge, especially deep subject matter expertise, is acquired, not retired.
We’re currently doing damage control database work from the last attempt of offshoring, and have years of work to do to get there.
The offshore teams did so much damage to Nielsen’s data that the higher ups made
It a priority to fix 18 months ago, then realized how extensive the damage was as that there’s years of work to do.
Good luck with that is all that I’ll say putting it back in their hands.
This has been a tendency at least since I've joined a while back, why do you think they have hired all this Slovenians and switching now to Indians and Mexicans?
It's OK for companies to try and find cheaper employees I guess, the problem at Nielsen arises when those employees (including the subpar managers) don't deliver and get away with it while keep on doing damage. Most of these people are incapable of taking responsibility, they are mostly concerned with the _idea_ of work (including empty talks, busy work, stupid presentations and meetings, etc) as opposed to real work delivering (and taking responsibility for) the features that will best serve our clients. It will ki-l Nielsen, it has already started!
I mean, they know: Cheap employees are its best resource!
This has been a tendency at least since I've joined a while back, why do you think they have hired all this Slovenians and switching now to Indians and Mexicans?
Again, there's a reason this company is on it's way out, they will figure it out eventually, or not, it wont matter anyway...
When they have leadership that knows the value of things, not just the cost.
Remember that you are working for a private equity firm now. The old “Nielsen” doesn’t exist anymore.
The company is swirling the toilet. Anyone who doesn’t see the whole ship sinking is blind