Run away as fast as possible - Anonymous employee Springer Nature Employee Review

1.0
Sep 4, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Where flexibility was the last remaining perk, it's not extended equally among the ranks.

Cons

At Springer, there's zero incentive for working hard and ineptitude goes a long way. Extremely disorganized, abysmal leadership, and rampant nepotism. New initiatives are rolled out before all bugs are cleared or before all geographic regions are even considered, resulting in a bigger mess than you'd started with. Terrible environment: long term building construction brings excessive noise, fire alarm testing and drills, completely closed off or out of service lifts, and even hallway flooding. No alternate accommodations will even be considered unless your position is deemed "income driving"; no allowance for working from home or temporarily moving locations even though there's tons of space due to shockingly high turnover. Major changes are made without bothering to consult with or even advise those who will be affected. No accountability for sexual harassment.

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Thanks for sharing your thoughts from our New York office. We have a great team; our purpose and culture continue to be 'stand out' and some of the reasons so many colleagues stay with us longer term. We are collaborative and progressive and everyday we contribute to learnings for generations to come.
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Thank you for sharing your review. We kicked off our second Career Growth Week so far this year with a focus on feedback which underpins growth at every level. Alongside the flagship sessions, colleagues took part in a wide range of virtual events across the week. These included popular sessions like building skills through feedback, Forward Talk, AI-powered feedback, “expert” careers and mentoring panels, the Facilitation Marathon, and a LinkedIn personal branding workshop, as well as practical learning through the Level up: boost your skills and Talent Attraction sessions. Perhaps look out for the next one which will be in a few months time. Colleague development is core to our organisation.
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