nobody saw that one coming, I bet
Nov. 11th, 2008 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
floatingleafGuess what? They dropped another bombshell on us at work today. We are being sold again. As of January 2009, we will no longer be part of The Nielsen Company. We are in the process of being acquired by another giant international media research corporation, called Kantar. What does that mean? Well, for one, all the people that Nielsen had laid off aren't going anywhere, because every single employee we have now will be hired by Kantar. So, technically, there will be no layoffs - at least for now. Secondly, we no longer have to deal with that obnoxious outsourcing company in India, because, as of today, we are not outsourcing our work anymore. They have a contract with Nielsen, not with us directly, and we aren't going to have anything to do with Nielsen in a few weeks, so we can safely forget about them... lol. No more faxing stuff back and forth fifteen times a week and wasting precious time correcting their mistakes. We will still be cross-training within our department, because the boss thinks cross-training is a good thing (which it probably is) - but there will be no more pressure to multitask like crazy, because no-one's leaving and we will have enough staff on site to manage the workload just fine. So, primarily, I will still be doing what I was originally hired to do. Which sounds perfect.
Of course, there are other consequences of this news which we haven't figured out yet. Like, for example, changes to our employee benefit plans, holiday schedule, payroll etc. Some of it will stay the same, but certainly not all, and even our HR manager didn't have the answers today (btw, most of the managers only found out about the whole thing this morning). But the bottom line is that we all have jobs, and the new parent company isn't going to interfere as much with the way we do them. Which is enough of a shock in itself, after what's been going on for the last few months... *blinks in disbelief*
Of course, there are other consequences of this news which we haven't figured out yet. Like, for example, changes to our employee benefit plans, holiday schedule, payroll etc. Some of it will stay the same, but certainly not all, and even our HR manager didn't have the answers today (btw, most of the managers only found out about the whole thing this morning). But the bottom line is that we all have jobs, and the new parent company isn't going to interfere as much with the way we do them. Which is enough of a shock in itself, after what's been going on for the last few months... *blinks in disbelief*
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Date: 2008-11-12 06:36 am (UTC)ly.
moly.
it's almost like a movie!
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Date: 2008-11-12 03:15 pm (UTC)Well - good news for your colleagues, for sure, and so far good news for you too. But wow. Shifting sands...
Hoping for your sake that things will settle down now.
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Date: 2008-11-12 04:36 pm (UTC)hugs
Jo
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Date: 2008-11-12 07:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-13 05:16 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-13 05:19 am (UTC)Yeah. This is the second owner change since I was hired two years ago...
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Date: 2008-11-13 05:21 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-11-13 05:30 am (UTC)So am I. Though I probably wouldn't be surprised anymore if they told us tomorrow we're moving to China, or to the moon.:P