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      Company Tries Hard but is changing - Learning Design Manager Cengage Employee Review

      4.0
      31 Jan 2024
      Learning design manager
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Still a sense of employee focus and wellbeing (middle management layers enact this in their teams) Wellness Week In certain Business Units, there is a strong sense of teamwork and working towards a common good -- our learners.

      Cons

      Removed two wellness days when the feedback has been very clear that the employees need more time off when the whole company is off. Upper management fails to realize that the constant push for growth is straining the contributors and creating burnout, a sense of defeat.

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      Thank you for taking the time to leave a review. I am glad to hear that you sense a strong sense of teamwork among a group of people who are working towards a common mission to serve learners. Ensuring we are supporting employee health and wellbeing continues to be a priority. We continue to offer a company-wide Wellness Week, as we recognize that additional time at the end of the year is extremely valuable in helping our employees’ recharge. We also offer a range of benefits and services to support employees both at work and in their personal lives. Thank you for your more than 6 years of service. I wish you the best in your next endeavors. CEO, Michael Hansen

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      3.0
      4 June 2026
      Director of marketing
      Recommend
      CEO approval
      Business outlook

      Pros

      Company has some interesting approaches to the market and in the past they seemed value employees. There are some good employees there and there was, in the past, visionary leadership, but the people with the vision and leadership skills left the company a few years ago.

      Cons

      The company actively de-values employees. They had a project they called "Project Horizon" where they told all employees they needed to cut costs, so the company was going to have multiple layoffs over 3-5 years - but nobody was allowed to know when, where, or why - - just one day large swaths of people would be gone. That hung over everyone's heads - for years, and is indicative of how Cengage values employees - it doesn't. Everything is about trying to secure new funding and prepare for an IPO, so they stopped investing significantly in the products about 3 years ago and that's about when they stopped acting like they cared about employee wellness as well.

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