Awful - Anonymous employee Kantar Employee Review

1.0
23 June 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

None that I can think of.

Cons

What can I say? The management have neglected the business and its employees for years. Kantar are big fans of towing the party line of "people are out main asset", but this does not translate on the ground. Everyone is working defensively. There is a culture of blame. It got worse after the Precise/Kantar Media merger. The Precise management team took their foot off the gas and their superiors did not seem to care. This left a trail of destruction that will take many years to put right. In the meantime, the original Precise management have all departed. Morale is very low. There is no reward for work. No praise. The lack of communication is the worst I have ever known in a company. One colleague described it as a "fear factory".

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