10 Reasons to Join us at Elsevier

Discovering a career at Elsevier starts with immersing yourself in our award-winning workplace culture and diverse environment. The true potential of joining us is best seen through the stories of our people, who bring our vibrant workplace to life.

At Elsevier, no matter which role you choose, you'll be contributing to a world-leading organization that supports the brightest minds in science, health, and technology. We strongly believe in promoting from within, offering you opportunities for growth and advancement.

Join our global team of over 9,000 employees across 46 countries, as we serve customers in 180 nations worldwide. You will benefit from their insight and expertise, helping you expand your ideas into innovations that benefit you, our users, and people around the world. We are empowered to make the right decisions, and we’re accountable to deliver the best outcomes while striving for meaningful innovation.

While facilities vary from office to office, we believe in providing an inspiring place to work, with gymnasiums, break rooms, pool tables and complimentary refreshments among the perks at various sites.

Here are 10 reasons you should join us to build your career and thrive.

1. Purposeful work

At Elsevier, your work matters. We help researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve lives. With us, you will learn continuously about advances in human knowledge by being part of an organization that nurtures your curiosity to stimulate innovation for the communities that we serve.

The three pillars of the Elsevier Experience: purposeful work, growing every day, and colleagues who care.

Elsevier ranked #1 as one of the top companies with the best engineering team in 2024

We are the global leader in information and analytics, helping researchers and healthcare professionals advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society. The support we give to the world’s most progressive thinkers and clinicians helps create a better world and a sustainable future for all.

“I’ve had the opportunity to shape products and services so that they provide real and meaningful value for the users.”
Liz Bradshaw, Lead UX Designer, Elsevier

We cultivate collaboration and help to cross-pollinate ground-breaking ideas. We make complex subject matter user-friendly and turn theory into action.

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Together, we create an inclusive, engaged, and agile global workplace focused on innovation. At Elsevier, you will do purposeful work that will help create possibilities that change and save lives.

2. Flexible working

Flexible working allows our people to be productive; it’s part of our culture and an excellent way to help promote a healthy work-life balance at Elsevier. Offering our employees flexible working options allows them to balance commitments in their personal lives with the demands of their work life.

Flexible working allows our people to work around obligations and responsibilities outside of their job. Whether our employees are caregivers or parents, flexible work helps them balance their work-life schedule better which reduces stress.

We empower our people at home, in the office — anywhere. We believe in work-life balance. For us, lessening employees’ stress is vital to our organizational success.

3. Wellness and wellbeing

Elsevier's MindLife program touches on many aspects of life and work.

At Elsevier, our leadership team and employees work together to create a healthy work environment for everyone. We are unified in our efforts to cultivate a workplace that is connected, caring, supportive and nurturing. For this reason, we place employee health and wellbeing at the forefront of our strategic priorities.

We understand the links between work, health and wellbeing — and the role we all need to play in adopting an organizational approach to employees’ wellbeing. Through our holistic initiatives for wellness and wellbeing, we are always striving to provide a healthier workplace that allows our our people to flourish.

Health is our most valuable asset, and we believe that everyone deserves access to the best possible wellness and wellbeing support at work. With numerous wellness initiatives, we help you to feel your best.

4. Great workplace culture

Elsevier CEO Kumsal Bayazit (right) talks with employees in the New York City office.

Elsevier CEO Kumsal Bayazit (right) talks with employees in the New York City office.

Elsevier CEO Kumsal Bayazit (right) talks with employees in the New York City office.

We were very pleased to be named a Top 10 company for global culture in March 2023. We work hard with our colleagues to build a place where everyone feels trusted, valued and heard and has equal opportunities.

Here, we value your lived experiences and differences. We have a work environment that is fair and nurturing. We take care of each other, and our employees around the globe are given the time and resources to help their local communities.

We have a safe environment to express ideas and make suggestions so that innovation is realized. Having an innovative culture inspires employees’ loyalty, confidence and willingness to go the extra mile.

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to help you succeed. Here, you will find an inclusive, agile, collaborative, innovative and fun environment, where everyone has a part to play. Whichever team you join, we promote a great workplace culture.

Inclusion and Diversity at Elsevier

5. Work-life balance

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"An organization where an employee's well-being is highly valued and work-life balance is given utmost importance."
Mohammed Owaise Software Engineer, Elsevier, India.

We know at Elsevier that work-life balance is an important aspect of a healthy work environment. Our culture of maintaining work-life balance helps our people to be their best at work.

As we see it, maintaining a healthy work-life balance is not only important for health and relationships — it also improves our performance.

We empower our people to look after themselves and find a balance between work and life. By enabling our people to have a healthy work-life balance, we cultivate a work environment where people are dedicated and mindful.

6. Inclusion and diversity

At Elsevier, Inclusion and Diversity are at the heart of the way we work, think and run our business. For us, an inclusive environment is key in enabling a diverse and unique workforce.

We also know that inclusive and diverse teams are critical in enhancing innovation, productivity and decision-making. Our organizational culture is conducive to making employees feel valued so everyone can bring their whole selves to work.

“I love how diverse the workforce is in Elsevier. My colleagues come from a variety of countries and backgrounds. It is rewarding to share and gain knowledge in a stimulating and exciting work environment.”
Sara Valentino, Editorial Project Manager, Elsevier

We are fully committed to creating a fair and equitable work environment for our people and in all the countries and territories in which we operate and we seek to comply with local employment and equality laws.

We constantly strive to be a great place to work, where our employees feel valued, have equal opportunities and benefit from pay equality, regardless of their gender identity, national origin, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability status.

Inclusion and Diversity are important for a sustainable future. We want to continue building a network of people from a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, and ideas to achieve real innovation for our customers around the world.

We have 35 Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) across Elsevier, focused on our 5 diversity dimensions:

  • Race and Ethnicity
  • Gender Equity
  • LGBTQ+ and Gender Identity
  • Disability
  • Generations

They provide a community as well as a place to learn about allyship, mentoring, and community involvement.

When Comparably conducted a poll asking female employees to rank their CEOs, Elsevier's Kumsal Bayazit was one of two female CEOs to make the Top 10 for large companies. Read about this in Fast Company and watch a video of our CEO below:

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7. Colleagues who care

When you work at Elsevier, you will join others who believe building an inclusive environment is vital for progress as Science and Healthcare are universal and should have no borders or bias. You can be yourself and be your best.

You will be part of the Elsevier family; we always support your well-being and provide the flexibility for you to thrive at work and home.

You are part of a global team with a huge range of subject matter experts, who will collaborate with you, support you in your goals, share your knowledge, and value your contributions.

8. A chance to grow every day

Employees in Elsevier's archive of historical books in Amsterdam.
"Elsevier has been more than just a workplace — it’s been a greenhouse for my personal and professional growth where colleagues, managers and the scientific community we serve have played pivotal roles in shaping my growth."
Katie Chan, Publisher, Elsevier.

Learning is at the heart of what we do as we help people in science and health expand their knowledge every day. That extends to a company culture that will help and encourage you to develop new skills and build your expertise.

Elsevier is a world leader in data and analytics, creating a multitude of opportunities for you to realize your potential, supported by your colleagues.

9. A collaborative culture

At Elsevier, you’ll collaborate with the brightest minds in science, healthcare and technology. There are plenty of opportunities to collaborate with colleagues, customers and partners globally.

Collaborations and a global environment will empower you as you work with the best researchers, healthcare professionals and educators in the world, you will want to equal their constant drive for excellence supported by your leader.

“While I'm not an offspring of two scientists from the planet Krypton, my career path has led me to join a company that empowers researchers and health professionals to advance science and improve health outcomes for the benefit of society.”
Richard Etienne, Director of Internal Communications, Elsevier

At Elsevier, the right collaborations can advance your career, boost your professional reputation and increase your chances of career growth.

Like the communities we serve, you are on a constant path of discovery to shape your own career and personal development.

10. Global exposure

"While building a career in a global organization, I’ve had the privilege of experiencing new cultures, norms and people that are new, exciting and unfamiliar. By working with people and visiting parts of the world that are radically different from my own, I’ve challenged my inherent assumptions and biases, become more open and inclusive of differences and achieved more than I ever thought possible. I lead a much richer life."
Melissa K. Fulkerson, VP of Reference Solutions at Elsevier.

Our creative and experimental global environment empowers you to play with technology in innovative ways, connect with the brightest minds in science and healthcare, or provide the right environment for you to do what you’re best at and be noticed.

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We have opportunities in technology, sales, editorial, health, marketing, people management, and more.

Some of the awards won by Elsevier
from 2021 to 2024

 These are the awards Elsevier has earned in the past two years from Comparably — the global workplace culture and compensation monitoring site — Personnel Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Kincentric.

These are the awards Elsevier has earned in the past two years from Comparably — the global workplace culture and compensation monitoring site — Personnel Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Kincentric and Workplace Pride.

These are the awards Elsevier has earned in the past two years from Comparably — the global workplace culture and compensation monitoring site — Personnel Today, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Kincentric and Workplace Pride.

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