
There is a lot of emphasis on internal hospitality.
Pay all employees livable wages.
Salary does not allow room for health insurance for people with disabilities.
Work is work. I could never be excited about selling my labor for profits that I'll never see.
People in my department are collaborative and open to the opinions of others. Criticism is offered firmly but constructively, and author feedback is taken seriously.
Most of my colleagues and I rely on a second source of income to make ends meet, either from a spouse/partner or from an additional part-time job. Elsevier makes it clear that it doesn't value its employees as people, especially since our questions about pay keep getting deflected or ignored.