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      4.0

      84% would recommend to a friend

      (1,530 total reviews)

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      72% positive business outlook

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      4.3

      Work/Life balance

      4.2

      Diversity & inclusion

      4.0

      Culture & values

      3.6

      Career opportunities

      3.5

      Senior management

      3.4

      Compensation and benefits

      Springer Nature has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 1,530 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Springer Nature 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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      1.0
      Sep 4, 2015

      Run away as fast as possible

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Where flexibility was the last remaining perk, it's not extended equally among the ranks.

      Cons

      At Springer, there's zero incentive for working hard and ineptitude goes a long way. Extremely disorganized, abysmal leadership, and rampant nepotism. New initiatives are rolled out before all bugs are cleared or before all geographic regions are even considered, resulting in a bigger mess than you'd started with. Terrible environment: long term building construction brings excessive noise, fire alarm testing and drills, completely closed off or out of service lifts, and even hallway flooding. No alternate accommodations will even be considered unless your position is deemed "income driving"; no allowance for working from home or temporarily moving locations even though there's tons of space due to shockingly high turnover. Major changes are made without bothering to consult with or even advise those who will be affected. No accountability for sexual harassment.

      3.0
      Sep 19, 2013

      Good company, but culture could use work

      Anonymous employee
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      Decent benefits, and they tend to promote from within before bringing in outside labor. Adequate sick days and the health insurance + matching 401K is a plus. Company invests in professional development by providing outside training for employees.

      Cons

      Company culture could use some work. Constant reorganizations upset morale and disrupt performance expectations. Employees tend to form cliques and this practice is (at best) not discouraged by management. At worst it is how management acts as well. Sometimes it feels like I'm back in high school again.

      1.0
      Mar 19, 2024

      Terrible executive and high-level management teams that exploit the Nature brand

      Senior editor
      Recommend
      Business Outlook

      Pros

      The editors of each Nature-branded journal. Each editor is very passionate and put the 110% in their daily job to support and serve the community they work with.

      Cons

      The executive team is completely detached from the day-to-day reality of each editorial employee. Morale for editors is always very low and is associated with constantly increasing workload, low salaries, the need to work overtime, and lack of recognition. The recent announcement for the switch from the 4:1 working from home policy (4 days at home and 1 day in the office) to 3:2 is sinking the morale, and possibly many talents will leave for better working conditions. The funny thing is that the Chief Publishing Officer of SN never published a single peer-reviewed research article in their life.

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      Nature continue to lead the world on impact and that is because of the great Nature team. Thank you for sharing your view on our hybrid work from home policy which has recently been updated so everyone globally has the same policy. For a time, we had a pilot scheme in place for 2 business areas (20% of our population) and, after listening to many of our colleagues via the engagement survey and other feedback, we decided to adopt a fair and consistent approach for all our colleagues around the world. We remain convinced that the positive impact of in person contact together with colleagues in the office 2 days a week supports our culture of being a great place to work, network and learn. Whilst this is a change for some colleagues, we hope that we can embrace this together. We made this decision for long term cuture, collaboration and career development. You may recall that we now offer 20 days per year workation days which allows for great flexibility to work and spend time with family and friends abroad. This has proved very popular. In reference to your comment about our CPO, it's simply not correct. He has published over 20 journal articles, books, conference papers and patents. Please also note that we steer our salaries in line with the labour market and constantly reivew these based on industry benchmarks.
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