Pearson Employee Reviews about "work from home"

Pros

The company is virtual so employees are able to work from home multiple days out of the week. There is PTO the last week of the year, good benefits, and good work life balance.

Cons

There is limited opportunity for some people to grow within the company. There have been a lot of changes within the last few years.

Pros

- Fantastic life/work balance as it allows me to be flexible with time and work from home - The office is great, just as location - Colleagues are very helpful and friendly -Work is varied and there are opportunities to do something different or get involved in different projects - Very inclusive, I feel very welcomed - Good benefits scheme and bonuses All in all, I love working at Pearson and so far had very positive experience.

Cons

- There are some political conflicts between countries/departments but I feel like it's inevitable in any global company

Pros

Test scoring is a good job that you train hard for and are able to work flexible hours from home. As long as you have the correct computer set-up and can pass all the qualifying tests you're good to go!

Cons

After 2 months or so of scoring you're basically finished for the year which is not great if you do want a longer term job- though you can get re-hired year after year. Only a lucky few are offered additional scoring at other times of the year.

Pros

Work independently from home and manage your own schedule as long as sales goals and objectives are met. Big company, so room to move from division to division to advance skill set while working for the same company.

Cons

Promotions are difficult to get. Annual sales goals could be really high--for example a 22% increase in sales goal from year-to-year in a market that grows at a max of 6% per year. Sales bonuses are all or nothing. You can work your tail off all year and get no bonus if you don't make your goal.

Pros

Work life balance is pretty good and your schedule can be very flexible with options to work from home. We have one guy work in a state where no office is located so works at home all the time. You get to work with a lot of publishing technologies and learn a lot if desired to dig for that info. My team has hands off management but heard they poke around where not wanted.

Cons

You work with a lot of people who are not technical and manage you. You speak up and voice concerns and it's brushed aside. You may be the most technical person on your team with no help. Minimal appreciation for employees. Non technical management/employees lack soft skills.

Pros

Work from home via a 'tele therapy' format; ability to attend professional trainings & interact/'network' with 'coworking SLPs' online.

Cons

New employee online trainings were WAY more time than they informed, and inadequately compensated. Online documentation requirements for speech language therapy sessions are ridiculous. The amount of extra time to complete required documentation tasks was onerous & not compensated. Company does not like you to "advocate" for students. This poses a professional & ethical dilemma

Pros

The opportunity to provide education to students who for various reasons worked better at home, or had schedules that were suited better to working at home. Students have to maintain a minimal pace, but can work faster if they prefer. As a special education teacher, I had a smaller caseload that general education teachers (not unusual for most school settings), and did video classes, which was fun. The opportunity to work from home is available though I was not there long enough to earn that privilege. A caring and dedicated staff.

Cons

As a special education teacher, HUGE amounts of time spent writing IEPS, holding phone conferences for both qualification and for IEPs. A supervisor who was tryiing to improve the quality of special education services, but as a result was overly demanding about quality of IEPs, making job very difficult. Difficult to look at a computer all day, rather than interacting face to face with students. Pay was minimal and below the standard for an experience, highly educated teacher.

Pros

Work from home and can sign in and out whenever you want to make your 20-40 hour requirement

Cons

-Never play the race-victim card unless it has been dealt...that being said...this is by far one of the most openly racist companies that I've ever worked for and they don't try to hide it! -Ask a question about work policies or express perceived unfair treatment such as being repeatedly locked out without warning for no reason? REMOVED FROM PROJECT AND GIVEN THE "COLD-UNEMPLOYABLE-SHOULDER" FROM H.R. -Want to know about other projects after raising concerns on the current project? ACCESS DENIED Apparently, in the midst of cries for equality, Pearson Assessments feels that it excludes them as their attitude over the past few years and to date has been "shut up and be happy we hired your kind! ask questions and raise concerns you'll be deader to us than George Floyd or Breanna Taylor is to your community!" Scoring is on a fast decline with more states and institutions opting to create their own tests. Dying dinosaur with its head in the sand (that's when it's not up its own rear)

Pros

The team is fun to work with and you get to work independently as well as from home

Cons

It can get repetitive and is not a year round position

Pros

I have worked with some amazing, talented, dedicated people, whose talents are frankly wasted here. The flexible schedule and ability to work from home are great. Decent benefits. If you don't mind the possibility of your job being completely turned upside down without warning or explanation, work here!

Cons

Completely disorganized and disjointed management that is totally out of touch with what the workforce needs to get their jobs done. Constant "restructuring" i.e. layoffs of the people who are doing valuable work while the upper management flounders around doing very little. Many of the really great people either leave or are laid off while the dead wood hangs on. Constant bad press makes it hard to be proud of working for this organization.