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Fire all toxic US management. Do not pay them a severance. Get rid of racists. Pay for performance. Lower all pay of Nielsen executives and top officers to state or federal minimum wage. Pay per profit percentage. Example if Nielsen after... — read more 

LPM Sales Manager - no lawsuit, only demand letter. Settled for 60,000-80,000 Swat Membership Rep - pro se - NIELSEN offered 51,000 but pro se declined due to not wanting to be illegally silenced from speaking out Nielsen Executive - lawsuit... — read more 

The last TAM townhall was a joke. Leadership spending half the time talking about how much growth opportunity there is in the company. They brought out a guy who told his story if 'climbing the corporate ladder' - part of his story? Getting laid... — read more 

Its happening, layoffs just been confirmed. Guess the big wigs in the US need some more holiday bonus money for themself..

Here an excerpt of Justin Franks' response to Nielsen's MOTION to Compel Arbitration, or in the Alternative, Motion to Dismiss UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF WASHINGTON AT TACOMA No. 3:23-CV-06150 Plaintiff, PLAINTIFF’S... — read more 

I read reports of NO severance for audio. Is this true for both TAM and Audio? If there is no more severance pay, what's to stop someone from sending an email to a DL list to all Nielsen employees with your opinion of the direction of the company, or... — read more 

I don’t know what to do about it. What’s your experience? Thanks.

My usual meeting with my manager got moved to tomorrow - is this it? I'm hoping it is, I'm in my 60s and ready to retire.

The method influences households to watch Family Guy. I remember a regional membership trainer suggesting reps showing people the family guy episode where Peter signs up for Nielsen Ratings to try to persuade homes to sign up. He said that in front... — read more 

Somebody fill me in. I left a long time ago. JM came in as someone with loads of experience and was going to take over both Audio and TAM. I quickly realized this guy was chosen because he knew how to say a lot of words with no meaning behind it... — read more 

https://youtu.be/4MUO2S6YNng Amazing video.

Excuse me, but could you please explain why the audio department appears to be unaffected by the layoffs that have impacted other departments, such as TAM and GRACENOTE?

There’s another platform talking about the audio national meeting where everyone was excited and motivated through out the meeting, then the director closed the meeting with “there’s nothing to be proud about ..the numbers are horrible 🙄 this is... — read more 

Once Nielsen terminates you, you are locked out and can't retrieve evidence of discrimination and retaliation. Back up everything related to your EEOC case ahead of time. Nielsen will retaliate if tell them you are going to the eeoc. Once you say... — read more 

It's happening again

Is HR allowed to post here or make their presense known or is it violating Nielsen policy to be here?

Has anyone been contacted this week with regards to the layoffs? Does anyone have any news on what is going on? The waiting game is just exhausting :-(

I am asking in all seriousness. I’ve been here for quite a while, haven’t been affected by layoffs so far, and I’m scared to leave on my own due to both personal circumstances and job market. But I feel horrible for still working here, especially... — read more 

Since American Nielsen records are stored in The Netherlands, are there any legal advantages in not keeping them in the US due to employment litigation reasons? And how do you feel about your personal information being stored in The Netherlands which... — read more 

Anyone gotten notices today vs increase?

As July starts, are you ready for your 0.2% merit increase?

Without using google, do you know what is Long Island Audit?

"I have decided to file a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit against my former employer, Nielsen, in the Federal U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington State because I believe they discriminated and retaliated against me. The... — read more 

Are other countries getting severance? What are the policies like?

If Nielsen's HR won't act, will filing with EEOC get better people to help resolve issues at work?

To add to my prior comment the long term employees are ones who have survived many rounds of layoffs over the years. That says something about their competence and contributions. No one likes to be let go but show a little class and maturity instead... — read more 

If after you left Nielsen and became a decision maker for a TV station, streaming service, advertiser or other company, would you buy Nielsen's data/currency, or would you decide to buy data from Comscore, TVision, or a different company instead?

Talent knows that this company can sack you anytime and sacking criteria is not your performance but the inconpetence /greed of others average to below average pay hostile/non existent knowledge transfers d-mb people mangers no real perks... — read more 

Have any former employees on here tried negotiating their severance benefits or had a lawyer write a counteroffer letter? If so,how did a pan out?

Who else thinking 7/1 will come with more RIFs and layoffs notifications vs the merit notifications

Has anyone emailed HR requesting to have their pay changed to the state or federal minimum wage? If you love your job, a decrease in pay makes you more attractive to keep. Offshoring jobs is just a business decision to increase EBITA. Some of you are... — read more 

I heard they have started wielding the axe in India engineering office too but are very secretive about it. I just hope they let go the incompetent management folks we had tough time dealing. Letting go lower level employees does not make any change... — read more 

Thoughts?

Nielsen are at it again, this time in the UK. Telling us our jobs are redundant only to transfer them to their cheap labour GCCs where quality is next to unknown. How long does Nielsen expect the clients to take this? How long before processes are... — read more 

Town hall today, 1 in 4 UK employees being fired and replaced with India. Sounds like more operations type of roles. Tone deaf leadership describing how wonderful it will be to help the company sustainably grow, zero empathy for people and their... — read more 

These past months have been a horror show, and there is no end in sight. Most of my colleagues and I have just been worrying about who’s next on the chopping block, and nobody has any motivation left. I guess it would be foolish to put in an effort... — read more 

I was informed I'd be let go back in March and was told I'd receive a severance agreement after my last day. It's been well over a month since my last day and I still haven't received the agreement (and thus no severance), despite contacting multiple... — read more 

All around the world! Mexico India Poland USA (no participants, only management)