Managers and above have been given some details on the new career architecture rolling out in January. Discussions will be happening with teams and individuals in January and February explaining where each person falls in the new architecture.
Wishing you all luck when it’s your turn! I wanted to create a thread here for people to share their experiences.
The career level reorg is just a bit of smoke and mirrors. In 2026 everyone’s salary will be adjusted to fit the new levels. So if you got downgraded this year, next year your salary will follow suit. Motivational stuff from the PEM, glad I am leaving next month!
Post from TheLayoff.com
The ESS team is utterly useless.
My ftc wasn’t extended (UK team) - told it was cos of budget and AI. Despite working on multi million pound project and the company sitting on £600million profit and work to be done in team. Second time am leaving and frankly relieved. Company has some hideous toxic management
In durham office people are being bullied, s**ually harassed, discriminated against and let go of overnight. Everyone, look for a way out before it gets worse.
I just hope that, when it's my time, I get a chance at a better company. I've stuck with pearson because it was my first job (and because I became complacent).
Good luck to everyone. I hope you all get out in time and with a better option.
I was laid off this week. My last day is 2/3/25
Every other year there is a new term for a reorg & layoffs. Career architecture this time. It's fairly obvious that the focus is getting AI to do your job.
Always irritating is that paired with layoffs is always hiring someone who makes a very large salary + bonus at the same time and bragging about it.
"I was laid off this week. My last day at pearson is 1/21/25"
Which division?
Let's all be completely frank here.....Pearson has been a sinking ship for close to a decade. It's just that the trash pile is burning hotter now than ever before. Like the violin players on the deck of the Titanic, it su-ks to be the ones still bound to the ship. "Stability" and remaining stagnant can be addictive. Do yourself a HUGE favor and leave the ship while there's still a few life rafts left. The entire leadership team is in stock pumping mode and nobody gives a cr-p about product. Huge layoffs this week in the hilariously failing ASSessments division --- which makes the fourth such round of large-scale workforce reductions since 2021. I'm here to tell you......the only people getting a prize from this carnival are the VPs and above who are just milking their time. Very few of them could actually make it in a real company ---- else they would have jumped ship by now. Their entire identity is tied to a company that they've likely worked at since they graduated from college.....and the thought of doing anything else at this point is terrifying to them.
I was laid off this week. My last day at pearson is 1/21/25
It certainly seems like this could lay the groundwork for layoffs, but no word yet.
so a reorg?