Merger with Synovate has destroyed the working environment - Anonymous employee Ipsos Employee Review

2.0
7 Apr 2015
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

An international company with a strong brand name that has the potential to make its mark on the industry. Ipsos has some very impressive proprietary research tools that clients value. Reasonable working hours most of the time. The office is usually empty by 8pm.

Cons

After the takeover of Synovate, everything fell apart. Valued Synovate management was pushed aside in favour of Ipsos staff which caused resentment and a high staff turnover rate at least for the first year. Synovate clients were confused by structural changes which meant some of them were moved to different research teams they were not familiar with.

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