Pros
Still a lot of great people at Forrester. In certain areas, the best research the company has done in years or ever. Still have a decent brand.
Cons
Just a few years back, Forrester was an excellent place to work, even winning glassdoor awards for best place to work and best CEO. Starting in 2022, things went south. The executive team went from listening to employees and valuing us to treating us like disposable resources. Churn on the executive team led to replacements without empathy and somehow still all white faces. The moment financial problems emerged, employees were blamed. The executive team is happy to blame individual employees whenever something goes wrong; they take no responsibility for bad strategy or actions. There is no understanding that if you change x, y will suffer. Empathy is gone. They moved to 'unlimited PTO' just in time to do a massive layoff and none of the victims received money for their unused vacation days. Severance packages don't live up to past policies. They made half the employees return to office with 2 weeks of notice but the other half are all remote anyway. Those in the office pay in terms of parking, commute time and stress. Morale was really high just 18 months ago but now it's in the gutter. There's no sign that anything positive is being done to change that. I miss the company I worked for just 18 months ago. Hard to believe how quickly it all has fallen apart.
