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Currently suffering from a ton of experienced decade old staff leaving due to no career progression and unfair workload when compared to external hires and their direct line management (who are also external hires).

A very large disconnect from senior management from the day to day business, leading to bizarre business decisions that are out of touch with reality.

Nepotistic hiring practices in many teams, leading to a very 'fake friendly' working environment.

Below average pay for your role, praying on more desperate hires who are looking for any job, which leads to many new staff disconnected from their roles and giving minimum effort.

Management is more than happy to crunch employees to meet deadlines by giving unrealistic workload and failing to provide support upon request.

New CEO encourages partaking in unpaid overtime to young staff under the guise of "Gaining experience".

Promotions are not given unless you beg and wait for an extra 2 years, then you reach a wall where just before management level, where it's filled with new external hires that don't know the business and decade old management who co-incidentally all know each other from other companies & family connections.

Would only recommend coming to gain the experience and prestige on your CV for a year or two, then looking for an exit plan.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Flexibility re choice of working days.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
 Some of the "Managers" can be rude and unpleasant to deal with as can their Technical Helpline.  Lots of rules and regulations that MUST be "adhered to" - at some briefings it was similar to being back at school - an overall lack of respect by Management for the workforce/foot soldiers who are out there doing the job in ALL weathers working in isolation often until late in the evening.  No consideration for workers' health and safety either - basically told to "use your common sense".

What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
The actual working environment is too remote from the Company and its working environment and culture to form an overall opinion but immediate Management and Technical staff can be rude and unpleasant to deal with.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
HARD WORK with no guarantee of pay as Interviewers are, in general, paid upon results - the job itself depends upon the kindness of strangers and the demands of the projects, in general, vary - like working the alphabet A to Z but NOT in alphabetical order.

Kantar is a company for people who love heavy processes. They tend to fire admin, secretaries, and local support functions to replace them with softwares and processes. Then the expectations is for you to spend your time doing boring admin work with slow, unnecessarily complex and outdated tech and software. A real pain!

In general at Kantar, there is a lot of “busy work” that does not add value. There are some very senior people who have extremely high salaries and don’t do anything of value for the teams (global and regional clients directors).

Kantar is a company for people who want to stay in their comfort zone when it comes to learning. The quality of the work is a bit mediocre there, also, It does not accept people who challenge the status quo.

I only worked at Kantar because they bought the company I was working for.

One thing I was shocked about was that Kantar give bad health insurance to junior people (cash plans) whose salary are ridiculously low, and can’t afford real insurance. They give good insurance to the higher earners, which makes no sense and I find is quite shameful.

What is the best part of working at the company?
Kantar proves to be an exceptional workplace, providing flexible hours and an outstanding training program. Their generous compensation package reflects their commitment to employee satisfaction. The management team is not only friendly but also exhibits a compassionate and professional demeanor towards the staff.

What is the most stressful part about working at the company?
Working at Kantar was a breeze, thanks to the support of professional management who were always available to assist. There was never any stress associated with working at Kantar.


What is the work environment and culture like at the company?
Kantar offers a very friendly work environment, where employees can thrive without feeling pressured.

What is a typical day like for you at the company?
A typical day at Kantar involves conducting surveys out in the field at pre-selected residential properties.

I secured this job largely because of the flexibility offered and worked for them for 3 months. Not once have I been paid the right amount despite numerous emails to the linked person for pay. They are also not up front with field researchers about the actual payment by results set up nor will they give you a straight answer when asked for details on this. Clearly the period I worked there they were setting up a large number of people but my contact person changed 6 times. They also fail to tell you that you will experience frequent IT issues and not be paid for any of the time you wait in at home to get these resolved. In fact the only time I was contacted was when my work wasn't synchronised properly and so this held up their income on projects. The job itself is easy enough, however you're not paid unless you book interviews, regardless of the time you spend knocking on doors and being turned away because previous staff have set up interviews and then not turned up. 

Never worked the position I was employed to do which was national crime surveys. Two days training and then sent door to door asking very long repetitive questions about lifestyles. Mostly including questions on smoking, rewarding people with a small value giftcard in exchange for their old empty cigarette and tobacco wrappers. As a non smoker I hated this. Met with a lot of hostility, especially when some customers were obviously buying counterfeit products. More than once I was accused of being an 'undercover cop'. A KPI assessment was sprung on me with little explanation what it was. The area manager was replaced several times, there was no reliable mentoring, and the whole structure of management seemed very hit and miss. Pay was based on the number of completed interviews, and related to size of the questionnaire. Only good point was reimbursed travel costs, and wages, were paid on time and accurate. Resigned after 14months, possibly the worst job I have ever had.

A day at work for me is a very busy day. I have to check whether the jobs that the team stated that they were going to do have been completed. I also provide tasks each day to the staff to ensure that their day is filled with work to cover the hours that they work.
I am always learning due to changed that are constantly being made within the company. 
Management are always supportive, whether it be for business or personal reasons. Everyone is approachable regardless of their level or status. 
The workplace culture is great. It's a great place to work as the company are always doing a lot for it's staff. It could be free lunch, breakfast, our summer or Christmas events! It is nice to be appreciated as we do work hard.
The hardest part of the job is dealing with conflict within the team. This is because of the fact that we all are a great team and when there are issues it can be hard to deal with. 
The most enjoyable job is the appreciation that I get when I know the staff that I manage are happy.

This job involved visiting public homes and asking pre-written questions, which took anything from 10 minutes to an hour, and saving the answers of these surveys on a laptop.


I learnt a lot of IT skills doing this job. I experienced how to collect mail, downloading surveys, print off addresses, send completed surveys back to headquarters, and logging in my hours to get paid.

I worked by myself throughout the day which was a great challenge, as it involved motivation and organization each day to get the results I needed.

The hardest parts of the job were probably taking the longer time consuming surveys with possibly embarrassing questions; the cold weather and negative survey responses from the public.

The most enjoyable parts of this job were driving home with positive, completed surveys on the laptop, and planning /organizing the following days workload.

A typical day working at Kantar would be working on Client's data e.g: L'Oreal, replying to internal and external emails, working together as a team to schedule in work and to sort out issues. 
I have learnt a lot at Kantar especially how to communicate to Client's and how to manage their needs. I have the most amazing co-workers, we all help each other to work together as a team and a lot of them have become my true friends. The most enjoyable part of my job would be receiving fantastic feedback from the Client's and being rewarded for this. My company has the most amazing reward scheme and I have received this reward twice while working at Kantar and it really does motivate you. I really do like how everyone celebrates your birthday by receiving a birthday card and on big birthdays they decorate your desk. I just think this is such a nice thing to do.

Work is relaxed, sometimes challenging, can be interesting. Colleagues are nice, management is decent overall, except for when they ask you to perform tasks that are not part of your job description and what you have signed up for, which is rare but still problematic. You are legally allowed to say no, but they give you cross eyes. They constantly try to manipulate you into working more for the same salary.
The salary is criminally low. There is a culture of brushing everything under the carpet. HR complaints are often buried when it comes to abusive managers. I haven't personally had issues but I know of many people who have. 
The availability of flexible working, daily fruit, free breakfast on Fridays are all nice aspects and the work can be enjoyable with it rarely being hard or too stressful.

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