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@n6 it’s better none of those are real lines of business they are products time to organise around 2 segments finally let’s hope we get rid of these waste of space product and content folk doing nothing each year but moving peas around the plate. Just double down on assessments ditch the rest. It’s distraction
Waste of time and will fix nothing. Sales is doomed. Cut them in half don't need ten people on an account. Should all be inside. Editorial less and less needed who needs books or authors anymore we've got AI. Marketing is a joke all reorganized for one leader to go and the worst left standing to probably run HE no one respects. But promotions for all the outsiders and new jobs to non pearson only.
Has anyone heard any updates on how things will shake out? My whole team is terrified.
@bf They are lying and it is obvious.
@mm 💯
Well the 'new' divisional leaders are certainly waxing lyrical about the new structure.
The minions just sigh, wait for what it means for them, endure months of uncertainty and confusion about the new set up, and just when things begin to settle down the deckchairs on the Titanic will be rearranged once more ....
@y3 Yeah I'm trying, just a rough market right now :(.
@10d And Chennai. Here is the reality org structure
Accenture (formerly Pearson)
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Technology (Google, MS, Accenture, Cognizant, AWS)
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Workforce Skills (Accenture)
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Assessment & Qualifications (Cognizant)
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HigherEd (Cognizant)
@z1
And put the Headquarters in Manilla or Bangalore.
Isn't it time to rename Pearson to Cognizant-US-Ed?
@xb The book Show Up to Win is helpful. One criteria for leaving can be, "Am I in a dying industry" Pearson is a dying industry. Staying too long in quicksand doesn't make it a gorgeous beach, it makes it harder to explain to future employers what skills are transferable. Keep looking, keep networking. Just don't keep staying.
@mn Changes have already happened recently in the Digital COE (I guess as part of this bigger reorg happening), and it took them ages to work out this plan, and it's utter crud, barely thought through.
I'm convinced they've done it to upset people to convince them to leave the job rather than letting them go and having to pay out. Jokes on them; the job market's in shambles, so most of us aren't leaving until we have a new job lined up (which is going to take us ages, colleagues have been looking for some time but its slim pickings).
I've got so many unhappy coworkers not knowing what their new position means and their new managers also not knowing either. A few people have gotten a good deal out of it, though (brown-nosing senior staff), but most got a sore deal.
Feel sorry for enterprise group especially under VG
@rt would they dare sell K12? The only over-performing sector?
@rs
I thought that before, but then surely they would have kept it as one LoB instead of separating international out and combining it with other stuff ? Probably more to do with making the numbers look better per 'new' division ...
@n6 Probably they attempting to sell HigherEd division like they did for POLS.
@m7
New structure doesn't make much sense to me.
So US Higher Ed is one of the new Lines of Business, ok
But then you have International Higher Ed lumped together with ELL, Clinical etc as a Line of Business ?
Going to cause all sorts of confusion. As if things weren't complicated enough already ...
@mn they for sure want us out so they don’t have to do it themselves. Only problem is Ive been trying to get out all year but the job market is so bad Ive been stuck at this sinking ship of an organization. Cant say unemployment sounds much better…
@mn so are we thinking November, December, or January layoffs? Or tiny sprinkles throughout?
Nice wind up to the holidays. Company is going to have major changes with perhaps no need for your position but we're not telling you until we're good and ready. Dates for the announcement subject to change.
It reads like a suggestion to seek other employment and there is a stated element of the managers making decisions in the present tense. The hope is people find other employment so there are fewer people to deal with and a push for you to su-k up to your manager to keep you job. Sounds at odds but it must have made sense to someone in HR.
Someone diabolical and unfeeling.
Decisions have been made.
People are going to be laid off and they do know who they are. Groundwork is always laid well in advance. A few folks might get added to the list or taken off but the majority of changes have been made. Makes zero sense otherwise.
@m7
And now we have vague, generic job titles they can map our roles to anywhere they want - convenient huh ?
Just when you build some rapore with management, we change again and you need to rebuild. Almost like it is a plan to constantly reassert ground zero.
@gf That is the legacy of Pearson. While I was employed, 8 reporting managers in 9 years. Zero career growth. I accept I am stupid. Go figure!
By the time people have worked out what their new role, reporting line and responsibilities are, the next re-org will come along ...
@c4 5th I believe. 2025 had Marketing, ELS and RevOps. Then PCR earlier this year.
What's the point in doing anything big if it's just going to be tossed aside?
@ev IMHO it is a way of getting out of paying people. The openly said "under performance" is acceptable which means as an individual you will be penalised. Every one contributes to the total Pearson (otherwise why are you employed) so there should be a share gain.
What did people think about the bonus structure, anyone on level 1 and 2 their bonus is 100% linked to their individual performance and not the company.
@ap In what way? Do you think this makes sense for US HiED?
It’s not real without a new logo.
No more cheese ball rolling and tales of excitement from Mr Personality? Da---t!
This has to be the fourth restructuring in 3 years??
@bj yeah, I just reread it, you’re spot on. My B,
@bf Their "primary purpose" is not head count. Very specifically chosen wording. Hope for the best but prepare for the worst folks.
They said there’s no reduction in headcount. It’s just a leadership reorg….
Anyone know what departments will be cut?
No surprise really and frankly overdue. Of course, it comes at the approach of the holiday season and Pearson’s penchant for trimming headcount mid-Q4. My guess is that the magic hat is being filled with names of those that will not be needed in this latest vision of the organization.
This one does make sense