Elsevier review - Anonymous employee Elsevier Employee Review

4.0
Feb 9, 2017
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

all the benefits of a large organisation, e.g. health and safety, pension scheme and international colleagues

Cons

career progression too much based on pre-defined targets and quantifiable target measurements, struggling to reward efforts beneficial to the business which don't fit exactly within remit of these targets or are more difficult to quantify, i.e. it doesn't reward it at all or structure is resistant and slow to do so, perhaps due to multiple management layers, all with their own rigid targets, etc.

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Elsevier Response
7y
Thank you for your review. Our employees are empowered supported by their managers to take charge of their own careers.

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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.
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