HarperCollins UK Reviews

The last few years at HC were so appalling it is hard to describe. Senior management adopted what appeared to be a blue sky attitude when appointing heads of department to Art. They either lacked the creative skills (one couldn't use Photoshop, another InDesign) or the managerial experience to run a large team. When we as a team voiced our concerns to management, we were ignored. The result is that almost the entire team finally threw in the towel and left in the space of less than a year. There are three remaining. Some left for other jobs but quite a number simply quit. There has been outright picking upon, verbal unpleasantness towards, blaming of, favouritism, taking credit on behalf of and undermining of staff by management. There is zero communication within the department, updates and meetings have ceased. Everything we worked to build over the years in terms of processes rubbished. HR appear not to care. The ethos seems to be executing everything as cheaply as possible with little regard for quality or job satisfaction. It is simply not good enough from a company with the heritage of HC.

Bullying was a huge problem in the Scottish office. It's been a few years since I worked there so it may have changed. The HR department was entirely ineffectual (which, to be fair, is common in companies with bullying problems.)