No Longer the "Place to Be" - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

2.0
Jul 19, 2013
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Hard to offer any pros at this point.

Cons

Recent leadership changes and pending restructuring have resulted in destruction of what was a positive and supportive culture. What we have now is a culture that is distrustful of management and hopeless about the future of publishing. Morale is at a all-time low. Communication is non-existent. Such a sad place to work right now.

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Cons

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