Hard to get work done due to internal dynamics and bureaucracy. - Anonymous employee Wolters Kluwer Employee Review

2.0
Mar 8, 2010
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

5bn$ company, good products in the Information Services space, significant acquisitions. The Financial Services arm is better than the others in terms of working environment.

Cons

Lot of internal dynamics, Very hard to get good work done, Autocratic management style, Very little positive reinforcement when doing a good job, Lack of infrastructure, Steady layoffs as a result of offshore initiative. Acquired organizations have not integrated well into the company resulting in a lot of intra-unit politicking. There is no clarity on roles & responsibilities of acquired units. Each acquired unit has its own culture, including a widely differing holiday schedule. Not much in the way of processes. Chicago downtown office lacks basic facilities & infrastructure. Incompetent IT Support services vendor (outsourced) takes ages to resolve minor issues.

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Wolters Kluwer Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s great to hear that you value the compensation, work-life balance, and tools that support your work at Wolters Kluwer. Your feedback on administrative processes is noted and important for how colleagues are able to focus on delivering value for customers and work effectively. We appreciate you taking the time to share this perspective. – Your talent brand team at Wolters Kluwer
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Wolters Kluwer has some genuinely amazing people working for them and offers flextime for good work/life balance

Cons

Recently began pushing to "inhouse-outsource" as much of the core business functions as possible to their new service center in Pune, India. While many of my Indian colleagues are exceptional people, the constant turnover with overseas contractors and haphazard hiring and training process means that many of these staff members are woefully underprepared and set up for failure. As an example, I had to train my Indian contractor replacement before I left - while he was a lovely person, he had zero training in or experience with US payroll, benefit or tax structures despite that being approximately 50% of my core job function.

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Wolters Kluwer Response
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Thank you for sharing your experience and for your time with us in New York. It’s great to hear that you valued the people you worked with and the flexibility that supported a healthy work-life balance. Your feedback on knowledge transfer, onboarding, and global ways of working is noted and important for how colleagues feel supported and able to work effectively. We appreciate you taking the time to share this perspective. – Your talent brand team at Wolters Kluwer
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