Some nice people, management has lost its way - Anonymous employee Pearson Employee Review

2.0
Jan 29, 2017
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Staff working in project management, content and tech support are friendly and a pleasure to work with.

Cons

Sinking ship feeling. Company is contracting, selling off profitable businesses to help improve the balance sheet and narrowing its focus instead of diversifying to grow revenue. Staff expertise under-utilised. Senior management treat full-time employees like freelancers. High expectations and mediocre pay. There is no salary transparency and I suspect there is a gender pay gap. Toxic interdepartmental relationship between sales and most other departments, and most in senior management seem unaware of this. The things I heard from some sales people were unbelievably unprofessional, yet they seem to be the only staff with job security.

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