Pros
- Management can be excellent - A lot of PTO (if you can take it, which becomes difficult over time as your workload goes up) - Work from home, flexibility to plan your schedule as you like as long as the work gets done.
Cons
Production lost a huge number of its staff during the pandemic due to the way WK treated its employees, and is likely to continue to lose more. Over two years it twice denied higher raises than usual (~2.5%), claiming "future market uncertainty," while simultaneously sending quarterly updates extolling its enormous profit margins. Old employees - those denied higher raises - were slammed with work from those who quit en mass and at times nearly doubled their workload from prior years during the lengthy period where there were no new hires to cover the work. For their loyalty they now make less than they did in prior years, due to inflation and aforementioned low raises. The company also proceeded to hire new employees at salaries significantly higher than the old employees', due to the competitive market for labor. This did not go unnoticed by staff, who continued to quit. In addition, there is no opportunity for advancement. The single step that is possible - a move to Senior Production Editor - comes with a mediocre raise and even more work and actually is not possible to get because the company now hires new employees at that level, and there are a limited number of those positions. This is a dead-end job for all but a few who become management. It will probably be outsourced and most staff laid off in the next 5 years anyway.