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Low pay, low benefits - Anonymous employee Harvard University Employee Review

1.0
17 Sept 2017
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Pros

Fascinating people work in and around the GSD at Harvard University, and the university relies on its famous name to acquire talented hires.

Cons

As an employer, Harvard has had a terrible reputation for generations. Buttons were produced in the 1960s saying "I can't eat prestige" and Harvard has recently been the site of massive complaints by cafeteria workers that jobs are unstable and incomes and benefits insufficient. While I worked there in 2016, graduate students and PhD students who work part time for the university were voting to unionize as a way of protecting themselves from abusive hours and insufficient compensation. My colleagues and I were told to expect better hours, better pay, and insurance which never materialized.

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Cons

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