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Lee Enterprises reviews

3.1

36% would recommend to a friend

(461 total reviews)
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Mary E. Junck

67% approve of CEO

20% positive business outlook

Lee Enterprises has an employee rating of 3.1 out of 5 stars, based on 461 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Lee Enterprises employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Media & Communication industry (3.7 stars).

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461 reviews
2.0
Aug 6, 2015
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

It's a job. Some of the people you work with are wonderful, but don't get used to them being there for long.

Cons

Long hours, little vacation time, low wages, everyone seemed afraid, unhappy, oppressed. Witnessed monthly firings, usually without warning.

1.0
Apr 26, 2022

Don’t do it

Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

None they work you to death

Cons

No time off, vacation requests denied (worked there over ten years and got told no vacation or time off is guaranteed it’s a privilege)

1.0
Apr 20, 2022
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Coworkers on the local level are dedicated and hardworking.

Cons

Lee never figured out how to handle the transition to the digital age. It's been playing catchup ever since the dawn of the internet. Corporate management definitely gives the impression that they don't give a damn about their employees, and their actions (outsourcing, layoffs, no pay raises for years at a time, insurance hikes that amount to de facto pay cuts) shows it. The only time corporate visited the satellite papers was to decide who they were going to outsource. Morale was horrible when I left. The worst thing that happened to the newspaper I worked at was when Lee bought it.

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