Management: Take Note. Staff will leave, improve your pay. - Anonymous employee Edco Employee Review

1.0
Feb 24, 2023
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

1. The staff are lovely, everyone is very friendly and approachable. 2. You will learn a lot here, because it's a relatively easy way for new graduates to get into the publishing industry.

Cons

The environment is so top-down it's incredible. You will really be treated as someone who can't offer anything to the company, you will be patronised and have your every move monitored. Your role will be dictated by senior management who are technologically very backward and prefer to prioritse keeping costs low than creating good textbooks. SALARY REVIEW: Salaries are decided at the whim of management with no proper review process or transparency. Bonuses and concessions are given to certain staff with no recourse for discussion. Cost of living salary increase requests by staff yielded no results, which indicates a lack of will to address the constant staff turnover and staffing shortages which afflict this company. As well as this, your job parameters will change, and you will be drafted into departments that were not specified in your role. You will essentially be asked to compensate for incredibly poor leadership throughout your tenure.

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5.0
Feb 19, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Good place to work for a living

Cons

I don’t have any cons working here

2.0
Aug 29, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Majority of the immediate colleagues are great, reliable and helpful. Good opportunity to start out in publishing as the company will make you experience a lot of aspects of it when hired.

Cons

No HR. Pension is a joke (considering the company’s reputation and affiliation). Top-down culture is hugely felt. Upper management is blind and deaf to staff’s overloaded work capacity and undermines junior/younger members as employees. The company is like a “family” in the most toxic way possible: upper management have their favourites and they take everything personal. If you’re not the favourite, you’ll have to scratch your way to get some crumbs off the table. No reward for hard work, just more work. No system for salary appraisal, you have to fight your way for a raise. No real career progression, just empty titles and promises. If there is, you’ll have to demand it. And if you demand too much, they’ll police your tone.

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