All great empires collapse... - Anonymous employee Imagine Learning Employee Review

1.0
19 May 2016
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Yes, there is a pantry.

Cons

Imagine Learning has changed from a company that treated employees like we were their greatest asset. Now, I feel like we are an unwanted expense (especially if you work in the wrong building). The recent reduction in force ("not calling it a layoff" -Joe Swenson) has been touted as a realignment of skills in order to streamline efforts to produce high quality activities faster (and for less money). At least that is the garbage they keep feeding us. They don't care much about the quality of the activities and even less about the content. Instead, the focus has become how we can produce something quickly while keeping the operating costs to a minimum. We used to pride ourselves on how our content was so rich, so diverse and very engaging. Now the focus is do it faster, make it less engaging and recycle what we can so we can reduce costs. Very, very sad to see the direction now There used to be a great deal of trust and admiration for our executive team. It has become increasingly difficult to sift out the truth from all the lies. I stopped listening to what they say now. Their actions speak louder than their words

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Imagine Learning Response
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Your disappointment, while completely natural, doesn't account for the fact that out of 11 employees affected by an organizational realignment, three chose to stay with the company in different assignments. We made every effort to help those impacted find new positions here or take additional months to search outside the company (at full pay and unlimited paid time off for interviews). No business is perfect, and every business has to make tough decisions. We don't find pleasure in the pain you are experiencing. But we do take issue with the idea that we would ever be satisfied with creating a mediocre product. We will never stop working to improve both our product and our processes. We hope in time you will view your experiences differently--and we do indeed wish you the best.

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