A demoralizing experience - Analyst Forrester Employee Review

While I'll give Forrester the benefit of the doubt in having good intentions, I believe they lack perspective on a number of things. Recent events have rapidly dampened employee experience and left a sour taste in many of our mouths. With the untimely and poorly communicated notice of layoffs, a pause in promotions, and a new return to office mandate, employee happiness is at an all-time low. The executive team gives the illusion of transparency, but never actually explains the true reasoning behind their decision making. For a research company, internal decisions seem to be made with a disregard to data. People's livelihoods are drastically (and often negatively) affected by the whims of the CEO and executive team. There is a serious lack of diversity in the company as a whole (and ESPECIALLY on the executive board). Especially as a person of color, it is so alienating and demoralizing to go into the office and not see a single person that looks like me. And to hear leadership say "we get more energy when we're in the office" is such a privileged thing to say when many employees expressed severe and very valid barriers to their work when forced to come in. They openly admitted to not taking socioeconomic and accessibility concerns into account when coming to these decisions, yet still tout diversity and inclusion as a pillar of the company. The so called "culture" Forrester thinks they're fostering comes from an echo chamber of opinions from senior leadership. If you aren't a neurotypical, extroverted, white person, I'd avoid Forrester until serious changes are made.