Reed Elsevier Group Reviews

Pros

The company has a large global footprint. This opens opportunities to have a career in a lot of different places including telecommuting.

Cons

Those based out of a small regional offices have less exposure to the corporate experience.

Advice to Senior Management

Employees in remote locations especially those in smaller locations have less opportunities for advancement and almost no exposure to corporate.

Pros

It's an old world book publishing company struggling to transition to a new world company. It is extremely challenging to see and help a company cross this technological chasm where the entire publishing industry is experiencing a severe transformation upheaval which has claimed many victims in the wake of its paradigm realignment. Reed Elsevier won't go under but may just cobble along. It is both exciting and frightening.

Cons

Ironically, depending on how you look at it, the pros are also the cons. For those willing to embrace this industry change and carve a new frontier, you will enjoy working here. For those less brave, this is not the place for you.

Advice to Senior Management

You must re-instill the faith in employees and rally the troops through this industry change. Employees are uneasy and do not trust management. Turnover is high. Managers need to have 1 on 1s with their team and be brutally honest with them in the change to come and what it means to the employees. That honesty will endear the staff with management and help reduce churn to some extent.

Pros

great people, great salary, great benefits, very relaxed working environment

Cons

not enough annual raise the last couple of years

Advice to Senior Management

N/A

Pros

best reason to work at Reed Elsevier group of companies would be the global exposure and diversity of workforce which promotes an excellent work environment

Cons

downsides of working at Reed elsevier would focus on compensation practices targeting low end of the spectrum and not much flexibility in remote work.

Advice to Senior Management

better to look at workforce compensation and benchmark it against the industry to ensure talent retention and recognition at work place.

Pros

Lots of training and traveling, simple org structure, nice and brilliant colleagues. competitive wage and holidays. Can be long term if one wants to.

Cons

The work gets redundant after 6 months
extremely hands on, one do all
generally unhappy customer due to stringent commercial practice

Advice to Senior Management

for a company this size stock option would be nice to reward and retain talents or loyal employees, incentives and benefits are not unified

Pros

values ,work ethic is good as is evident from the type of people in my team with transparent reporting and auditing of results,job potential and scope is excellent for growth in the company, team ,salary is competitive

Cons

time ,work life balance, efforts ,tough commute

Advice to Senior Management

not sure

Pros

Global Presence with strong brand names in it's portfolio

Cons

Its not "What you know" it's "who you know" and "How Well You Know" gets you anywhere

Advice to Senior Management

Please wake up and smell the coffee before it's too late

Pros

- Great mission and contribution to society
- Talented management
- Strong financial results allowing for good compensations
- Very good employee atmosphere

Cons

- Not yet as innovative as we would like it to be
- Not changing as fast as we would like
- You need to find your own opportunities to progress

Advice to Senior Management

The company needs more bold changes
We need to invest more in technology
We need to become more knowledgeable about our customers

Pros

Good products, good values system

Cons

Slow to evolve, cheap on IT technology

Advice to Senior Management

Circular managment. Senior managment shoud seek reviews from staff about how mid management perform to get a full picture

Pros

Health benefits is great. I love the flexible work hours.

Cons

People are tired and their future is unclear. It is just a job.

Advice to Senior Management

Listen to your people and think long term.