Oxford University Press is awful at retaining good talent, which is why so many of the managers, editors, and department heads are so incompetent. I worked there for a year and 8 months, received good reviews, generated a lot of money with my marketing review campaigns, and left willingly because of OUP's outrageous abuse of its employees. You will make less than 40K at a starting salary/entry level position and will be expected to complete the workload of three people (usually because management and HR will terminate a position and not re-hire someone for about 6 to 10 months. Or, if someone leaves, they will not fill the position for 6 to 10 months, shoving the workload that was for the vacant positions onto the assistants, coordinators, and lower level positions while paying them a salary that will leave them swimming in credit debt and rationing their meals for months). Another extreme point of contention with this company is the sexual harassment. I have witnessed an editor making lewd comments to my colleagues (actually he still works there, and although he's been reported multiple times by managers and assistants, he was only given classes to help him not sexually harass people). Where is the Me Too movement for Oxford University Press? We sure need one. Authors and customers at conferences have sexually harassed my colleagues, and when they reported it to HR, Human Resources did not punish the author or customer. In the author's case, they told him that he can't attend Oxford University Press conferences anymore (but OUP employees could still see him at other conferences), and did not terminate his contract. The president of the company also would not verbally defame an author who had been accused of abusing multiple women (that book must bring in a lot of money). When a sales rep was sexually assaulted at a conference by the same editor who has been reported multiple times and not fired, the head of the department (Higher Ed) told the employee who witnessed and reported it that he shouldn't go to HR. Nothing was handled and the editor was not punished. Oxford University Press also only really cares about money and cares little for furthering education as they claim. Every meeting is about how the company can make more and more money, as they continue to cut jobs and increase the workload of lower level employees, and they have conversations about really stressing the "not-for-profit" message. Plenty of professors had told me that they wanted to use Oxford University Press textbooks because the company was "Not-for-Profit," but they didn't realize that the CEO makes over a million dollars per year while the lower level employees make $36,000 and all the excess money goes to the university to manicure its lawn. There is also no upward mobility. They will keep assistants and coordinators in lower level roles for 5+ years and only hire managers from other companies, which doesn't even make sense as far as productivity goes. The editors scream at their assistants and demean them on a regular basis. There's hardly any oversight from a lot of the editors, leading to many errors in the final products themselves (I heard from a lot of professors about this in my reviews). Also, they have a diversity committee, but I think it's only so that they can say they have a diversity committee. The company is not diverse. Overall, it's a really bad place to work.
