Let go the day I got back from a medical leave - Narrative Designer Elsevier Employee Review

2.0
May 27, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, remote work, mostly decent group of people to work with, interesting product to work on

Cons

During a company restructuring, they let go everyone within my company with my particular title at the start of the year. I was on a medical leave and I didn’t know about this. They pushed me over the phone to come back part time while I was receiving intense treatment, but there apparently wasn’t even job for me to come back to. They just needed me to come back so they could let me go. I’m glad I trusted my gut and took the full time I needed to get my health in order. Had a really dystopian company-wide meeting about AI and how it wasn’t going to eliminate jobs. It’s painfully difficult to get ahold of HR or Payroll, even for off-boarding information. Had me relocate across the country for a remote job, but never asked me to go into the office.

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Elsevier Response
1y
Thank you for leaving your review. With the business world changing constantly and so rapidly, virtually every established business feels the imperative to improve and innovate continuously. Executives, managers, and employees across our business work hard to figure out how to best and strategically address the genuine needs of our customers and partners globally. We always strive to ensure that we cater to the well-being of our employees and support them through any change that may arise.

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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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