No longer "the place to be" - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

Constant downsizing and outsourcing, plus the lack of raises last year, have killed morale. Managers were moved from a 35-hour work week to a normal 40-hour work week (and expected to be available at home) with NO compensation for the extra hours and NO raise. Wiley is more interested in saving money by outsourcing and axing employees than ensuring quality and efficiency. Trimming the fat is understandable, but getting rid of qualified employees and sending their jobs to poorly trained temps and contractors (who have absolutely no loyalty to Wiley) or lesser qualified employees is shooting ourselves in the foot. Meanwhile, there is no shortage of VPs around here. Recent changes to procedures have made many processes more convoluted and time-consuming. I spend most of my day being frustrated and aggravated. In an effort to be more "modern," upper management rushes to embrace new technologies and processes without properly testing them or getting user input. The latest brainstorm is to post critical information for employees on a Facebook-like site. I feel like I work for a social club instead of a corporation. Maybe I'm just a grumpy baby-boomer, but that's another issue -- many people here over 50 don't feel valued or feel like we fit in anymore. But that's OK, because our severance papers are on their way.