Chaos management = burn out - Client Partner Kantar Employee Review

2.0
29 Feb 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

- Opportunity to work with wide range of impressive brands - Variety of different types of interesting projects - Generally nice, smart and dedicated coworkers

Cons

- chaos continues to reign supreme at executive/ c-suite levels who are disconnected from employees - employee feedback is never actioned against in a meaningful way - lots of financial pressure to perform, even without necessary resources. Likely to increase as Bain looks to sell - highly political culture - DEI is unfortunately not part of Kantar’s DNA. Highly perfunctory/ performative approach to do the minimum and check the box - client prices increase with inflation each year due to higher labor rates because of inflation, but employees are not given (at a minimum) the same inflationary cost of living salary increases each year - right now, morale is very low and burn out is very high across the organization. Nobody flourishes when permanently in survival mode, and this has led to a significant erosion of energy, motivation, engagement and drive among employees

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2.0
30 May 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Hard working associates, mostly bright (and admirable) heads of department. Good benefits. Previous CEO seemed like a genuinely nice guy and would listen to you if you approached him about something.

Cons

There’s a lot of reasons why top notch talent has long jumped ship. Great at sounding smart…terrible at actually getting the revenue to avoid the wholesale data asset sell offs going on. Terribly overcomplicated product portfolios with inflexible solutions at higher costs than smaller leading agencies that have outpaced them. Department heads gaslighting everyone under VPs about performance when they aren’t winning the internal Hunger Games and are told to reduce headcount.

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