Apparently friendly culture but super political - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

3.0
Jun 13, 2019
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Family involvement, lots of nice people wanting to do good work

Cons

Leaderships changes its mind constantly and there are endless reorganizations and layoffs. Under the friendly surface it is super political.

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Wiley Response
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Thanks for taking the time to leave a review. You're right that there are a lot of nice people who are doing good, meaningful work to contribute to research, higher education, and professional learning. Times of change are often difficult to manage, particularly when those changes happen at a fast-pace. I'm truly sorry if that contributed to a bad work experience.

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