A Sinking Ship - Senior Production Editor Wiley Employee Review

2.0
6 Feb 2023
Recommend
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Pros

Good amount of PTO. Very dedicated, friendly and intelligent employees.

Cons

Upper management is massively out out touch with their employees. They practice an autocratic-like management style despite their efforts to act like an open-minded, forward-thinking, diverse, and compassionate company that they desperately want to be. Employees are treated like numbers and have no voice. Sadly, which was once a great company to work for (5-10 years ago), with a high level of optimism and morale is now in dire straights as jobs are being outsourced overseas and employee perks & benefits have been scaled back (or eliminated all together).

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