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      PLOS

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      PLOS reviews

      3.1

      49% would recommend to a friend

      (113 total reviews)

      Alison Mudditt

      72% approve of CEO

      38% positive business outlook

      Ratings by category

      3.7

      Work/Life balance

      3.5

      Diversity & inclusion

      3.3

      Culture & values

      3.2

      Compensation and benefits

      2.7

      Career opportunities

      2.6

      Senior management

      PLOS has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 113 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The PLOS 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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      113 reviews
      4.0
      Nov 3, 2021

      Highly driven workforce hampered by unclear leadership

      Research associate
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      PLOS has some of the most dedicated and personable people I've had the pleasure of working with. Everyone is invested in innovating open science and removing barriers to scientific publishing and their hard work reflects that. Middle management has been very proactive in making sure voices are heard up at top.

      Cons

      Mercurial upper management. Priorities can shift suddenly leaving teams scrambling.

      3.0
      Oct 25, 2021

      Good People, with a good mission hampered by organizational issues

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - Super friendly colleagues - Solid approach to Open Science Mission - Great flexibility in work life balance

      Cons

      - Structural issues within the organisation seems to mean that time is not amply given to personal objectives and development,. - Extremely poor communication during probationary period, no objectives set and while not passing probation is upon myself - Absolutely no indication was provided to my progress (despite asking) and no discussion was had on this earlier in the process.

      3.0
      May 20, 2021

      The right idea, butshort-sighted approach to staffing persists

      Editor
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      - The people at PLOS are bright, friendly, engaged and a pleasure to work with. - The company does genuinely care about its staff and they do make efforts to ensure that people are supported - work is flexible, good support during COVID, birthday and extra days off during winter holidays. Their heart is in the right place, at least. - Working for a not-for-profit means that not every activity needs to financially motivated, although the purse strings are still tight - After several years of haemorrhaging money we are now in the black, although sometimes this at the cost of well-being and performance - Compensation is good - There is not a culture of working very long hours like there is in other areas (e.g. consulting) - There are negatives of working at PLOS, but the positives absolutely outweigh the negatives. I love my job and working for PLOS - it's not perfect but I would recommend others work here. I am sure the problems at PLOS are prevalent in other organisations too.

      Cons

      - The tight purse strings are starting to harm morale and journal performance. We're launching several new titles which has put a real strain on the organisation. Rather than hire staff to help out with this, the approach has to been to overload already overloaded staff with yet more work. This has put personal pressure on those spread too thin, but has also started harm other journals as staff previously devoted to one title are neglecting their original titles and backlogs are forming. Whilst we have hired a fair few positions recently, these have often been in brand new roles at a high level. - Decreasing value placed on in-house expertise as more tasks are outsourced - people have started leaving for this reason.

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