Pros
Epsilon had good work-life balance, a decent office and decent benefits, even with all the outsourcing to India before the sale to Publicis. Publicis is trying to destroy all this...as if they want people to quit.
Cons
Things that Publicis has done since the take over: 1) Office Consolidation - handled horribly. People were told choose between going to an existing Publicis office with a nightmare of a commute, work from home full-time or work in the Epsilon office full time, but you will be given a new space in a smaller office. Among those who chose to stay, turns out many no longer have a permanent seat and have to do "hoteling". The move was announced a few days before the Christmas break - so those out on vacation could not pack up their stuff. Not sure what happened to them. 2) Benefits were consolidated right away. Well, more like all the good benefits Epsilon has were immediately taken away and we were transitioned to Publicis' inferior ones - more expensive health care, less 401k match, dismal parental leave - and that assumes that the transition even works. Publicis does not really have an HR so if your paycheck or benefits are screwed up, there is no one to turn to but an outsourced company that does nothing but copy/paste generic answers. The one thing Publicis had better than Epsilon was more holidays and that is the one thing they did not transition us to. So now people will be working in the same building as other Publicis employees and get to come in to work while their colleagues have a day off. What does that do for moral? 3) Lay-offs continue (especially if you are an older, more expensive employee) while work loads for the remainder are increasing. 4) The employee survey was cancelled - they are not interested in knowing.
