Leadership do not listen to employee concerns, building resentment - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

1.0
Jan 23, 2025
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Summer Fridays, Paid Time Off policy is solid for corporate, but average for the publishing industry

Cons

Company strategy is vague with a lot of references to AI, but many are stuck in the past and hold back on change. Wiley is trying to implement RTO, but after multiple office closures, a huge part of the company has moved online and there is resistance and frustration among colleagues who are being pressured to go in for no real benefit (building "in-person" company culture isn't a benefit especially this only falls on the shoulders of certain people). It doesn't help that compensation is not great even for publishing. Resources overall seem scarce and some teams are stretched thin with resentment building towards leadership, who seem out of touch

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5.0
Jun 18, 2026
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Nice coworkers and managers, work-life balance, smart people and industry, opportunities to grow skillset. If you volunteer for opportunities, you will be supported and will learn a lot about the industry.

Cons

Pay and hybrid office work

2.0
Jun 3, 2026
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Pros

Decent pay and benefits for publishing.

Cons

Once of the most toxic work environments I've ever worked at. Upper management tears editors down if you are not a favorite. Favorites are chosen by metrics that do not exist, and are subjective and arbitrary. Wiley is losing money because brilliant, young editors leave due to no support and toxic work environments. Wiley Trade is essentially a hybrid publisher. Author's put a lot of money into their book -- too much. There is very very little marketing and publicity support for authors. But they brand as more than there actually is. All in all a very sad place to work and sad for authors.

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