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      3.4

      56% would recommend to a friend

      (133 total reviews)
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      Steve Brown

      74% approve of CEO

      59% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.6

      Compensation and benefits

      3.5

      Culture & values

      3.1

      Career opportunities

      3.0

      Senior management

      Nelson has an employee rating of 3.4 out of 5 stars, based on 133 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Nelson employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Mídia e comunicação industry (3.7 stars).

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      133 reviews
      1.0
      May 11, 2017

      Company lost its luster

      Management
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Can't really think of any convincing pros... Summer hours perhaps, if you are into that. Scarborough if you you live there. Otherwise, stay away!

      Cons

      The company went recently through an insolvency process and we all know what that means: don't expect investments in people, processes or technology. Instead, layoffs and cost cuttings are the norm and the company seems oblivious to what that means to its long term survival.

      1.0
      May 1, 2017

      Old school mentality

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Must choose five words here, so in truthfulness, no pros I can claim.

      Cons

      No forward thinking. Management plays favouritism for employees who have no (or little) skills, but keep those people employed while letting go others. Executive management always claimed "the pay in publishing is traditionally low paying so...", well guess what, publishing is NO LONGER TRADITIONAL.

      3.0
      Apr 3, 2017

      Always Layoffs

      Development school division
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Coworkers have great integrity, are really good at what they do, nice cafeteria, free parking. Offices are good, you have all the tools required to do a professional job, Summer Fridays. Benefits and pay are just "ok". It feels good to be working on educational material rather than making widgets or car parts. The quality of the textbooks is highly regarded in schools and universities, so people respect your experience.

      Cons

      Scarborough, always layoff so no job security, not a lot of work/life balance. You'll do a lot of overtime and it's difficult to get the time off in lieu as you'll be very busy. However, I also heard of people in departments where they had to pretend to have things to do because they were terrified about being laid off. Every year there are significant lists of people who are fired to keep the company going, and after that, there are the speeches that "now we've got it". But they don't. Partly it's the nature of large publishing companies these days -- and they keep on the marketing and sales staff but the development side has been haemorrhaging for years.

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