Nice Play to Work, but they fired us like dogs - Associate Conversation Designer Elsevier Employee Review

2.0
Sep 5, 2024
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Good team, benefits were alright. Work-life balance was excellent.

Cons

No room for advancement on my team. And they laid off half of us team --all of the people they'd hired during the pandemic--without any consideration for effort or work product after two years. The VP hauled us all into a meeting on a Monday with a misleading title (which was honestly an outright lie) and read us the riot act in a monotone. Severance was weak (two months) AND they before laid us all off before our 5% retirement match could vest. A dirty thing to do to employees, quite frankly.

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Elsevier Response
1y
Thank you for leaving your review. We take your review seriously but must delve more into your highlighted issues. Unfortunately, the lack of a named location makes it difficult to investigate this. We are in over 180 locations worldwide with more than 9,000 workers, so if we are to investigate this, we need more information. Our recent employee opinion survey shows strong positive momentum in people's experience working at Elsevier, but it appears that hasn’t been the case here. If you prefer, feel free to contact us at elseviergdrev@elsevier.com to provide more information. Again, thanks for your review.

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Industry leader Great benefits Incentive trips Invests heavily in its employees

Cons

Processes can be burdensome and clunky at times

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Elsevier Response
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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.
4.0
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