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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
      1.0
      Aug 1, 2019

      On Its Last Leg (Exsanguination)

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Commiseration can create bonds with any remaining good coworkers. That's pretty much the only positive. The mission, in theory, is positive but leaders cannot execute nor strategize effectively. Can anyone in a position of leadership even articulate the mission or current strategy? All signs are pointing towards 'no'

      Cons

      What's the plan exactly? Let everyone quit or be laid off and then hire cheaper, outsourced replacements? So much for what was left of the mission. The people making the decisions don't care about or listen to staff enough, while also lacking the skills and experience to fix things. Jobs will be outsourced or we will be bought out, if not both. It's a sad realization but the people calling the shots don't have the chops to turn this ship around.

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      PLOS Response
      6y
      Thanks for sharing your experience although I’m disappointed to read it - it certainly isn’t the employee experience we strive for at PLOS. While we’ve been through major changes over the past 18 months those have been designed to put us in a place to succeed and deliver on this mission we all care so much about. And we’re seeing the changes have an impact in our current positive results. There’s always more we can do and I hope that you will talk to your manager or our People Team if you have specific suggestions.
      1.0
      Jul 11, 2019

      why am i still here?

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Good mission but organization lacks alignment and executives won't or aren't capable of providing a roadmap to mission. Good people, but all seem lost and complacent. While it was a good decision to hire a head of HR and she seems to care with a better HR staff than before, the CEO can't shirk responsibilities to fix culture to that team while you the CEO earns top dollar doing nothing and barely have a vision or strategy to move PLOS forward. More focused training for managers, but in parallel, you have and hire directors that barely have any leadership skills and don't promote the people you already have.

      Cons

      I'm really not sure why i am still here, definitely not at PLOS for the money. And definitely not because its fun - it's far from fun, far from innovative, far from a solid team. I'm just waiting for the next job offer like most employees here. I'm embarrassed to say I'm an employee here with everything that has gone on. I don't want to have to have to explain that while we value transparency and open access, the organization itself is not. It greatly frustrates and angers me that executives and senior management don't care at all about workload, stress and mental health. Sure, work life balance is high, but that's because we still have to fight for our rights to have a life. But it makes us feel guilty because the backlog and having to have our co-workers suffer with our work when we are out isn't good. Honestly, I don't know why the CEO continues to bring her incompetent friends in. I would be embarrassed to be part of senior management, look - more than 80% of your employees don't believe you all are doing a good job and don't even see the value of those directors.

      1.0
      Jul 8, 2019

      Run fast or PLOS will eat you alive

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      *Meaningful mission *Weekly happy hours or lunches *Great co-workers *Good benefits *Fantastic waterfront location

      Cons

      *Getting rid of the good people during the many layoffs and restructures which results in working more than 40 hours/week *Highly paid executives but those doing all the work are under compensated (take a look at the salaries on the 990s posted on PLOS' website) *Low moral and nothing is being done about it *The CEO lets us know that she hires her friends from UC Press so you can see definitely favoritism on the exec team (all while she stands at All Hands that as much as we like referrals, we don't want them so we can bring in diversity and fresh perspective) *Under appreciated and not acknowledged for hard work *PLOS is in a financial crisis yet they're spending tons of money on coaches for the executives and senior management

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