Disappointing - Senior Manager Springer Nature Employee Review

1.0
Mar 5, 2024
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Pros

Very important mission, some amazing colleagues, and a global network.

Cons

Springer Nature acquired our company, laid staff off, and then sold us for parts after taking what they wanted and years of stringing us along. The experience was excruciating for the company, their management and HR teams were deeply incompetent, and their leadership approach would best be described as "supremely arrogant." Rather than focusing on making OA a reality or making publishing a better place for authors and their science, their leadership seemed more interested in empire building and perhaps resurrecting their failed IPO without articulating why anyone actually needs them. Good luck.

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Springer Nature Response
2y
Thank you for sharing your review and very sorry to hear about your experiences. We do not take decisions lightly when making colleague or organisational changes. Business productivity and markets evolve and with this our strategy needs to adapt. As you say, our people are terrific and our work touches millions of people every day; the communities of researchers and educators we work with and the wider public who read and benefit from the research we publish. Without our people we couldn’t be able to deliver on our overall business mission to help solve the world’s greatest challenges.

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Cons

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts from our New York office. We have a great team; our purpose and culture continue to be 'stand out' and some of the reasons so many colleagues stay with us longer term. We are collaborative and progressive and everyday we contribute to learnings for generations to come.
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Cons

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Springer Nature Response
1w
Thank you for sharing your review. We kicked off our second Career Growth Week so far this year with a focus on feedback which underpins growth at every level. Alongside the flagship sessions, colleagues took part in a wide range of virtual events across the week. These included popular sessions like building skills through feedback, Forward Talk, AI-powered feedback, “expert” careers and mentoring panels, the Facilitation Marathon, and a LinkedIn personal branding workshop, as well as practical learning through the Level up: boost your skills and Talent Attraction sessions. Perhaps look out for the next one which will be in a few months time. Colleague development is core to our organisation.
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