Always restructuring, never rewarding - Anonymous employee Pearson Employee Review

1.0
10 Apr 2016
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Employees are intelligent, ethical, and care passionately about their work. Our work can be fun and creative and we are encouraged to be innovative.

Cons

The restructuring the company implemented two years ago is not working well. CEO Fallon was sold a bill of goods by the consulting firm hired to help reorganize the company. Senior management (Fallon's team) seem oblivious to what is actually going on in the company and give pat answers to difficult questions. It has been one layoff after another with more to come. They want to grow the business but there is no assurance that employees will share in the successes. Talk of aggressive growth just makes employees feel even more tired, as most of us have absorbed work after several layoffs the last two years. Raises are pitiful even in good years. Excellent work is rarely recognized.

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