Too Much Change Too Fast - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

3.0
Jan 19, 2015
Anonymous employee
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Pros

A company with history going back to Poe. Salary and Benefits in general are good, but a moving in a negative direction.

Cons

The changes that are happening currently are moving too fast. It seems that a company that has lasted over 175 years is relying on consultants to make dramatic changes to the Core of what the company represented. There is no longer any care or interest in how the changes affect staff. No longer is there a look to see if existing staff can be retrained for new positions, out with the old in with the new is the new mantra. When the old leave the new are lost on who to contact for anything, relying on the remaining few to point them in the right direction. One more email about staff leaving and we will be checking for more redundancy across the globe. No idea why there has not been any article in any financial columns about the thousands that have been cut.

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