Used to be a great place to work. Sad to see how they are treating employees. - Sales Elsevier Employee Review

1.0
3 Oct 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Flexibility 2 work at home days

Cons

Benefits being slashed All employees will have 5 less vacation days in 2020 (oh, but we can buy them back) Over the next 3 years 401K contributions will drop from 7% to 5% I have worked there for over 7 years, and have never had a raise over 2.5%. No one I know has either. They did away with cubes and offices to go to open concept offices with lockers for our belongings. At your 10 year anniversary you used to get a $1,000 bonus; 20 years a $2,000 bonus. Starting in 2020 for 10 years you get $100 Amazon gift card; 20 years a$500 Amazon gift card.

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Elsevier Response
6y
Thank you for this review. Many of the changes in benefits we are implementing for 2020 have been in response to an employee survey earlier this year, as well as our efforts to harmonize policies between our different business units and to offer new programs we are seeing in the marketplace. We are hearing from our employees that they would like improved medical plans and flexibility in their time out of the office and we are making changes in our overall benefits package to allow for this, including improved family benefits for parental, elder care and paid FMLA leave. We encourage you to reach out to your Empower Retirement to understand your individual situation as the 401(k) matching contribution formula is based on years of service. It seems like what you have written may not be reflective of the new plan based on your years of service. We would like to clarify that employees are not losing vacation days. One of our business units is converting to the PTO policy that our other business units offer, which allows employees flexibility in how they use their time out of the office. In the conversion, employees will keep their number of vacation days. Sick and personal days have been adjusted and are now added to the amount of vacation days and the total number of days be available as PTO. Additionally, the company will now allow for carry over days for all employees to allow increased flexibility. For anniversary awards, we are harmonizing the system for all employees. We realize that this change does impact the award amounts for longer service employees, there will now be opportunities for spot awards throughout the year. Again, thank you very much for the review.

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Cons

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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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Pros

Every direct manager I've had has been excellent: supportive, positive, and trusting me to deliver good work instead of micromanaging. Employees tend to stay, which suggests stability even if not everyone gets promotions or significant raises.

Cons

The pressure to outsource as much as possible, which is common at every publisher, leads to frustration. Because promotions or significant raises seem to be rare, you may be stuck in neutral unless you're very openly ambitious.

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