Going from bad to worse - Anonymous employee OCLC Employee Review

1.0
Feb 20, 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Work-life balance is good for most, depending on your manager.

Cons

The company continues to be horribly mismanaged. Culture and moral are extremely low across the board. The company is essentially stealing from the poor to give to the rich. ~10% of the workforce was laid off while upper management saw massive salary increases. In the midst of layoffs, Directors were promoted to Executive Directors, Executive Directors to Vice Presidents, and Vice Presidents to Chiefs, while everyone else was told that no promotions will be considered, and to take your 2.5% increase (below inflation) and be happy. All while cuts in staff have increased the workload for those that remain. The only people happy and prospering are upper management. There are only crumbs left to everyone else.

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Cons

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2.0
Jun 13, 2026
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Pros

The benefits, particularly the thrift plan, are good for as long as they still exist. The employees are generally smart and caring people.

Cons

Upper management is neither good nor trustworthy. To go into details would most likely violate this website's TOS. Trust them not to tell you the truth, trust them to blame you if they can save themselves for another year. Any stories you've heard about a great place to work are based on old data. That company no longer exists. While layoffs have always been a threat, employees are constantly on edge now and having the CEO tell them if they want to stay on they shouldn't make trouble does not help, to say the least If you get hired here, understand that this cannot be a long term destination. Get your experience, have an exit plan, don't get comfortable and fade into mediocrity because that is your future, and that's if you are lucky. I just want to add that everything the other reviews say about the president is true. He absolutely did mock employee responses to an opinion survey at a town hall.

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