Disheartening decline in the Tax & Accounting Division - Employee Wolters Kluwer Employee Review

1.0
Jan 31, 2016
Recommend
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Pros

Generous PTO (if you're allowed to take it; some divisions and departments have significant black-out dates, and you are not allowed to roll over or cash out unused PTO) Affordable health insurance Generally smart, capable co-workers

Cons

A word to the wise: WK is a large, multi-national corporation with multiple divisions (in Health, Tax and Accounting, Legal, etc.). When researching WK on Glassdoor, try to search specifically for the division, and, if possible, the location you are considering. There are huge differences. Now the cons in the Tax & Accounting division: With the exception perhaps of salespeople, compensation lags significantly behind the industry for similar jobs. Recently hired middle managers from other industries have little to no knowledge of the software or accounting industries -- and have expressly said they don't need to learn about them. I've heard well-respected and high-performing veteran employees try to politely offer insights and suggestions. Their concerns and suggestions are dismissed with an arrogance that is staggering. The company was just reorganized for at least the fourth time since I've been here (about 10 years). There is little to no effort to retain good employees. If people leave, sometimes after trying for a long time to help make things better, management just claims that the people leaving couldn't handle change. Recent efforts to improve employee engagement have centered on superficial things like creating an employee lounge and establishing an employee council that has NO authority and NO budget.

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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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