Toxic work culture. - Anonymous employee Are Media Employee Review

Everyone below middle management is so lovely to work with. Occassional sales and industry opportunities (PR, etc.).

Frequent restructures so lack of stability. Pushing out good managers/people leaders and keeping ones who don't care about employees, only revenue. Pay is far below industry and experience standard. 4 days a week in office (used to be 3). Past coworkers have been bullied out by management. Teams are forced to be skeletons, with slow hiring. Extremely difficult about promotions and pay raises.

You’ll learn the full magazine production cycle fast because you’ll be the one doing it all.

Straight out of the old Bauer NZ playbook. Management will tell you print isn’t dying with a completely straight face, then would never buy a magazine themselves, digital gets lip service (so clients think they understand the web!) and zero investment. Editorial is treated as disposable, work them hard, pay them little, while sales gets the red carpet, and don’t expect that imbalance to be acknowledged. On top of it, editorial staff are made to feel lucky just to be there, like it’s still the early 2000s glossy magazine fantasy.. No one’s aspiring to print jobs anymore, the industry moved on, so stop dressing up underpayment as a privilege!