Beware--hundreds of people have been laid off and many more expected in the next year or so - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

1.0
9 Aug 2013
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Managers are good and the benefits are pretty good.

Cons

Upper management looks at employees as just products and not as people. Over the last year or so there have been hundreds of layoffs not based on seniority or merit. They have have been very upfront that they are beginning to outsource most of their editorial work to other vendors outside of North America and Europe.

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Pros

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Cons

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