Advance Publications Reviews

Pros

If you work hard, if in the right place, and at the right time, you will get ahead just like anywhere else in te business world.

Cons

Competetion is fierce but if you're comfortable in that environment you will thrive. If not, it may not be a place for you. The Corporate side is not that bad as long as you work hard and prove yourself worthy.

Pros

Low key atmosphere together with a small scale operation

Cons

Company is a black hole where people go to end careers. Newspaper business is nto what it once was and company is now trying to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of the workers, to their severe detriment

Pros

Employees are offered great benefits, are generally treated well and are very loyal to the company. Employees work together to make the business succesful.

Cons

Management has a somewhat paternalistic approach in the way they treat their employees, which does not always serve the best interests of the employees.

Advice to Senior Management

Although the company takes great pride in managing its businesses in a very private manner, one recommendation would be to adopt lessons from other private and publicly held companies as they work towards recovering from this recent economic downturn.

Pros

You will write and edit a lot, which builds your skills.

Cons

Advance Publications on their newspaper side seem to be getting away from hiring full-time employees with good benefits and salaries to contractors and youngsters who make just barely $30K a year in the high cost New York metro area.

Advice to Senior Management

You can't project quality if you don't have it inside.

Pros

Competitive salary, excellent benefits, an open and easygoing work environment, some potential for advancement and job training, lots of time off, flexibility, additional perks from advertisers and seminars on retirement, etc.

Cons

Most of those "pro"s are good as of ten years ago. Withing the last five, panic ensued and all hell broke loose. Benefits, salary and jobs have been slashed. Upper and middle management, and then sales and news staff, have become a revolving door. Medical benefits are a bureaucratic nightmare and require yearly screening or you're cut. Management grasp desperately at radical solutions and completely lose focus on their main product while not really improving in technology fields. Before, some malcontents existed. Now, a poisonous atmosphere of hostility and bitterness prevails among even the best left.

Advice to Senior Management

You need people who understand the publication industry capable of openness and honesty, and who are willing to make rational decisions on what to do about the internet. Instead we get Wall Street expatriates doing a hack job every two years before moving on to a better job. There are people with vision already working in your company. Find them, promote them and nourish them.

Your employees appreciate your commitment to their benefits, but why do your senior editors not defend your company's rights to run its business, and instead kowtow to whatever way the wind is blowing?