Category: Media Industry Author : JR Posted: December 30, 2008
Tags : best places to work, craig dubow, gannett, glassdoor, worst places to work
Gannett Ranked As One of America’s Worst Places to Work
Gannett is one of the worst places you could be working right now, according to an end-of-year report compiled by employee survey site Glassdoor.
The job satisfaction site compiled its user-submitted rankings and reviews from the past year and found Gannett to have an overall rating of 2.6 (out of a possible 5 points). CEO Craig Dubow’s approval rating? A whopping 19 percent. He’s even beating President Bush’s historically low approval score with that number.
Gannett appears to be the only media ownership group that made Glassdoor’s bottom 50 list.
Clicking over to the reviews page for the company provides some interesting user-submitted headlines. To be fair, some of them are neutral or even slightly positive. Some of the ones that stood out the most, however, included:
• “I am sorry for those that are still there” –Executive Assistant in McLean, VA (US)
• “The horribly mismanaged side of the media industry.” –Web Developer in Bridgeport, CT (US)
• “Working for Gannett feels like you’re on the lower class levels of the Titanic.” –Master Control Operator
• “Gannett will erode your soul.” –Marketing in Indianapolis, IN (US)
Gannett, as you may recall, has seen more than its share of layoffs and profit challenges this past year as the company struggles to find its way in the modern media world. CEO Craig Dubow recently cut his next year’s salary from $7,500,000 to $7,300,000 to help. We sarcastically commended his oh-so-generous gesture here, in case you missed it.
You can check out Glassdoor’s full list of the 50 worst companies — which also includes AT&T/AT&T Mobility, Blockbuster, Real, and eBay — here. The site’s top 50 list, which includes Netflix, Adobe, Google, and Best Buy, is here.







Jan 19, 2009
I saw company exec`s toasting the breaking of the unions
Jan 19, 2009
I worked for Gannett for nearly 10 years and my Dad worked their for 25 years. It is definantely the absolute degrating, awful place in the world to work. After my Dad retired they cut his health benefits in half which was almost unaffordable for them. They don't care about their employees and just want to get more work for less money is their moto. I totally agree with this article.
Jan 26, 2009
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I saw company exec`s toasting the breaking of the unions
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I saw the unions toasting with the exec's that broke the union.