Employees lose severance pay due to bankruptcy filing - Senior Marketing Manager Cengage Employee Review

1.0
Jul 2, 2013
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Not at this time. I think this board will grow now that severance has been revoked.

Cons

Due to another reorg my position was eliminated. I was given severance pay through July but that ended today when Cengage filed bankruptcy and no longer will honor employee severance agreements. Mike Hansen and Mr. Stone are finally showing how little they value employees.

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3.0
Jun 4, 2026
Recommend
Business Outlook

Pros

Company has some interesting approaches to the market and in the past they seemed value employees. There are some good employees there and there was, in the past, visionary leadership, but the people with the vision and leadership skills left the company a few years ago.

Cons

The company actively de-values employees. They had a project they called "Project Horizon" where they told all employees they needed to cut costs, so the company was going to have multiple layoffs over 3-5 years - but nobody was allowed to know when, where, or why - - just one day large swaths of people would be gone. That hung over everyone's heads - for years, and is indicative of how Cengage values employees - it doesn't. Everything is about trying to secure new funding and prepare for an IPO, so they stopped investing significantly in the products about 3 years ago and that's about when they stopped acting like they cared about employee wellness as well.

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