Pros
Some of the best reasons to work at The Conference Board would include: - Remote work (which is now being scaled back) - Summer Fridays (which is really at your manager's discretion, as I worked several after putting in the requisite hours to have OFF.) - PTOs - there are a fair amount of paid holidays, vacations days and personal days, along with unlimited sick days. - The week off between Christmas and New Years is amazing. That's all folks. The trend here - the more time you spend AWAY from this place the better.
Cons
If you have great skills and are looking to make a difference - RUN in the opposite direction of this place. Unless you are part of the Executive or Management Committee, you will have no clear career path, no formal training, no opportunities for growth - and will be given a review which will showcase past mistakes. All for the whopping increase of 2% each year. Unless you are part of the "elite", who receive preferential treatment, promotions, salary increases and more. There are senior managers who are verbally abusive and will never be taken to task over it. Reporting them to HR is useless. There is no real HR structure. Posts alluding to employee engagement being good are lies. Many employees are there because they are close to retiring, or they have become complacent. They fear the current job market. What they don't realize is working at a company like this can become a "soul-sucking experience" and in the event of yet another change to corporate strategy, they will not hesitate to let you go anyway. There is no loyalty. There is only a revolving door where you come in and if you do not become "part of the Borg", you are deemed useless and shown the door. Those who stay struggle daily with increasingly overwhelming workloads and are made to feel like this is just part of "pitching in" because the company is "currently not sustainable". Once upon a time this place worked. And for the record, people may have had issues with Jon Spector, but in my experience, he genuinely wanted good things for this company. Some of his decisions were not great, but it was sad to watch his "champions" leave him behind without a glance back in an effort to crawl as far up the new CEO's butt as they could be accommodated.
