Biding their time - Editorial SPH Magazines Employee Review

2.0
Apr 11, 2018
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Still has clout, borrowing from the height of its golden days. Hardworking units and loyal employees, but they get fewer by the month.

Cons

Run by a few self-ascribed kingpins clearly waiting for the ship to go down but who will draw pay till then. They add no edge, and their leadership style and SOPS breaks down to about 80% retrospect, hindsight, and criticism, 10% damage control, 7% mood-based, and 3% fresh ideas that actually work out. That last 3% will repeatedly, and I mean REPEATEDLY, be used to justify the harrowing other 97%. You cannot go digital with leaders who have no clue how digital circulation and even how analytics work. Bad grasp of basic mathematical concept and statistics means superiors leaping to hurried or skewed conclusions in accordance with confirmation bias. Absurd KPIs which others here have listed as "pulling numbers from the sky" - they look to be based on doubling competitor numbers without providing the direction, infrastructure, budget or manpower to achieve the goal.

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3.0
May 25, 2017
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Pros

A comfortable place to work at with all the necessary perks and occasional opportunities for promotions — so comfortable in fact it's less a workplace than a retirement village.

Cons

Too many old people at the top who remain fixed on traditional ways of getting things done. There's no room for creativity or independent thinking here.

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2.0
Sep 10, 2017
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Pros

Great colleagues, fulfilling work, good career opportunities if you know how to hustle (that's not saying much tho)

Cons

Poor career opportunities if you're unwilling to play the game, long hours, poor salary and benefits, poor salary increments, poor management decisions. Upper management is slow on the uptake to trends, dont know their products as well and don't know what to do with digital. Adverse to risk and only willing to push for short-term profit results. Unwilling to take creative risks even though there isn't much to lose already anyway.

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