Pros
- The name Springer Nature looks good in the CV. - Flexible work arrangements (for UK standards). Fast response to the pandemic. - Clean offices in central London. Casual environment, free tea/coffee. - Friendly colleagues, supportive lower/middle management.
Cons
- Very low salaries, especially for the level of expertise required. - Heavy workloads that constantly increase, as colleagues who leave are rarely replaced. Targets are unattainable without regular overtime (unpaid). - Hardly any opportunities for progression. Pointless performance reviews twice a year, but hard work and experience are not rewarded, while poor performance is ignored or tolerated. - Frequent redundancies (often of entire teams) for outsourcing, despite huge profits. - Incompetent higher management keeps introducing unusable and senseless processes, while employees’ feedback is consistently ignored. - Low morale among staff. Highly skilled, experienced colleagues keep leaving for greener pastures. - Large gender pay gap. Almost no ethnic diversity.
