Springer Nature reviews

- Major disconnect the highest levels of management and the actual culture of research publishing - The move towards optimizing the company for more efficient turnaround times and increased publishing output devalues and ignores the editors' input and efforts that have been spent to bring in the best science year upon year, and adds more to the already-overburdened editorial workloads without proper compensation for the additional workloads. - Repeated promises to bring in more personnel to alleviate these burdens, but the fulfillment of these promises are never fast enough and take at least several months, adding to existing editors' stress levels and contributing to burnout.

Management is disorganized and barely knows what’s going on. The work is very autonomous and you don’t collaborate with others at all, and yet your work is measured as a team and if your team isn’t making their numbers, you suffer for it. They harp on the importance of being in the office, but there’s zero office culture, no sense of teamwork, and management is useless and just straight up rude. They play favorites, manipulate you into taking on extra work, and don’t promote their hardworking employees and then act surprised when everyone quits at the same time.