Toxic Atmosphere - Director Elsevier Employee Review

1.0
Mar 7, 2020
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Pros

Seemed like a positive environment at first.

Cons

Never a clear direction and constant restructuring. Internal competitiveness and back stabbing is the norm. Really quite toxic.

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Elsevier Response
6y
We thank you for taking the time to provide us with your feedback. Sorry that your 5 to 7 years’ experience at Elsevier did not match our intention of being known as a great place to work. It's unfortunate that you could not partake in our continued joint efforts to create a comfortable, transparent and collaborative environment for all our employees when you were at Elsevier. As we grow from strength to strength as an organisation, we are united in recognising the important role all our employees play. We value and consider all feedback and we'll continue to find ways to improve as an organization. If you are open to connect, feel free to reach out to us at elseviergdrev@elsevier.com

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Thank you for this balanced and thoughtful review. We're glad to hear that our benefits and investment in people are making a positive impact, those are commitments we take seriously. On the process feedback: Leadership is actively reviewing operational workflows, and the advice to listen more closely to employee feedback is something we're holding ourselves accountable to. If you're open to it, we'd encourage you to bring specific examples forward through your team or people and culture contacts. Change is most effective when it's grounded in the real experiences of the people doing the work, and that means you. Feel free to reach out to us at elseviergdrev@elsevier.com to provide more information Thank you for staying engaged and for caring enough to share this. It matters.
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