Sailing on the Titanic - Supervisor Pearson Employee Review

1.0
May 30, 2019
Recommend
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Pros

Compensation meets market expectations Benefits are competitive but not as good as they used to be Work location is flexible

Cons

The company's reaction to the Great Recession has been one of self-sabotage and undermining all the qualities that made it a great place to work. The "best place to work for women" is now run almost entirely by old white men who have given up our identity as an educational publisher to be a vague "digital solutions company" that chases whatever profit opportunity looks shiny that day. We're forced to look the other way when we create and SELL incomplete products/platforms that need at least another year in development. Management communicates to us as if a third of our stakeholder partners were not just laid off. We have jettisoned institutional knowledge and foisted the extra work on people who were already working overtime. When asked what it's like to work at Pearson, I compare it much to the musicians on the Titanic who didn't have a seat in the life boat. We keep playing, because what else can we do? It's an odd sensation to work for the most accomplished company in higher education publishing while it sinks.

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Cons

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2.0
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Pros

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Cons

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