Great colleagues, toxic management - Anonymous employee Edco Employee Review

1.0
May 20, 2025
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Most colleagues are lovely and great to work with.

Cons

Upper management will do anything except actually meaningfully address employee concerns. Flexibility/WFH benefits are virtually impossible to get if you didn't negotiate for them before being hired. No room for upward mobility and you can forget about a raise/promotion unless you're ready to hound your manager and wade through months/years of corporate jargon. Clear favouritism shown. This favouritism is never shown to minorities. Absolutely no support from management - employees are left to manage by themselves with no help when overloaded (always), sick, injured, overworked or burnt out. Communication is awful - from management and across departments. It's all such a shame because the work is interesting and varied and the rest of the staff are wonderful.

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5.0
Feb 19, 2022
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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
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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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