R.R. Donnelley Reviews

Pros

Good salary
Global company with travel opportunity
Strong Corporate umbrella over business segments
Executive management has some visionary issues to iron out.

Cons

very political. advancement opportunity hinges on relationships.
does not promote creative thinking from employees.
senior management pretends to listen to feedback.
benefits package is expensive, highly compensated employees pay the most. example 13,000.00/year for family ppo.

Advice to Senior Management

Solicit employee feedback, they speak to the clients daily.
Sr management should foster a balanced work atmosphere.
Value and recognize employees for their work.

Pros

RR Donnelley is a godd company to be part because it face several chalenges due to the technology advances, but we stil growing!.

Cons

Due to the Technology advances we are facing some problems in our sales trend, but we still growing! and wnat to be growing for several years more.

Advice to Senior Management

My advice to the R R Donnelley leadership is to face more agressible the risk of lossing clients due to the technology advances.

Pros

Relaxed dress code and comfortable work enviroment. Responsibility and decision-making is shared at the employee level. Not difficult to initiate improvements. It is also a a good location for my commute.

Cons

Low level management needs to have more power to get technical issues resolved for employees. Old equipment/software and access issues - some due to the Bowne to Donnelley transition - make it difficult to be efficient in training contract employees and in processing work in general. Poor support in the IT area even though all work is an electronic enviroment.

Advice to Senior Management

Support your business! Upgrade where needed and support the set up and training of employees to do the work. Way too slow and this is a waste of employee resources.

Pros

Tons of flexibility on the schedule. They work around family commitments, etc.

Cons

Too many analysts and not enough growth opportunities. Company is struggling to keep their numbers looking good. A lot more internal reports must be maintained compared to a year ago. More collections are required and less analysis.

Advice to Senior Management

I don't think they differentiate the slackers from the hard workers. Some managers are much more knowledgable than others with the same experience.

Pros

Large company
Ok pay
Time off

Cons

No matching on 401k
Pension plan is almost nothing
Not competitive on IT salaries

Advice to Senior Management

Hire a transformation and strategy consulting firm. Transition legacy skilled employees into support and promote mainstream skilled employees. Start a consulting practice as a new revenue stream and to create stickiness with clients. Invest in IT technologies that create efficiencies and develop a roadmap for near term and 5 years out. Finally own the data, mine the data, and sell the BI to the world as a new revenue stream.

Pros

The name recognition is good for the resume. That is it.

Cons

By far the most miserable, angry disgruntled people I have ever been exposed to in a work place.
They hate their jobs, they hate each other and there is NO pleasing anyone in this place unless you find a good butt to kiss. And kiss it good.

Advice to Senior Management

Xanax. Good lord.

Pros

The pay was decent and at one time, so were the benefits.

Cons

Bad management, no chance for growth, poor benefits, no value placed on employee work/life balance, no bonuses, misclassified employee FLSA status to avoid paying OT, outdated technology.

Advice to Senior Management

Take a genuine interest in the development of your employees.

Pros

World presence makes it well known
Relocation potential is available
Relationship with Coworkers

Cons

Downsizing in process
Many years of service meant little when it came to downsizing

Pros

Good people that are totally dedicated.

Cons

Senior managemenat does not proactivly recognize employees for job excellence!

Pros

Employees are encouraged to work as teams, to enable a friendly working atmosphere, and to ensure the highest quality in customer service.

Cons

Unfortunately, many of our employees have a high workload, which contributes some stress; thankfully, our managers do their best to keep the stress at manageable levels.

Advice to Senior Management

It would be nice for medium levels of management to be encouraging to temporary employees, provided they are doing excellent work, by informing them when opportunities to be hired within the company are made available.