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Forethought Research Reviews

2.4

33% would recommend to a friend

(58 total reviews)

26% positive business outlook

Forethought Research has an employee rating of 2.4 out of 5 stars, based on 58 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an average working experience there. The Forethought Research employee rating is 35% below average for employers within the Media and communication industry (3.7 stars).

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58 reviews
4.0
4 May 2017

You get out what you put in

Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great place to build your career You can get a lot out, if you are willing to work hard Some exceptional people, who can really boost knowledge and confidence Really supportive and will help you when you need it

Cons

High expectation can lead to a stressful environment, resilience is key Some conflicting priorities

1.0
6 Nov 2016
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Pros

Not much pros really. A dictatorial management who mistreats employees, nepotism ... and now putting fake positive reviews in glassdoor, when many former employees started to post their reviews here. Glassdoor, please take action. Beware of comments below - such as "made me more resilient". This is what the management tells those young kids from Uni to brainwash them. Moreover, Uni kids who never worked elsewhere, cannot even compare how it is like to work elsewhere. So often they fall for this lies that - Forethought is a GREAT place to work and making them resilient for the future! If you wanna keep your sanity and self respect, consider other market research or consulting firms. No one deserves to be treated like the way forethought treats people. The way they treat is even illegal by Australian law and I hope someone sues them one day for continual harassment.

Cons

Where to start! It tells you a lot about a company if their management puts fake reviews in Glassdoor, rather than trying to improve how they treat people and resolve operations issue. This is a company that: 1. Made an employee come to work while the person was sick with conjunctivitis and had a medical certificate from the doctor. Later, the employee was told that he let the team down by being sick and company is not happy with his performance. And there are many examples like this. 2. If mistreating the employees wasn't good enough, this company is also good at abusing non-conforming management. They got rid of their Head of Consulting in most bizarre way (telling employees that he was sick, until people started finding out that he was not) just because he did not agree with the owner and his buddies on some matters. You can't voice your opinion here. Owner and his incompetent+inexperienced family & friends, holding top positions in the company, are Kings, Queens and Knights. You say a thing against them and you will be punished. 3. They took their former star employees to court. Why? Because they left and client decided to follow - which is quite normal in the consulting world. 4. Brainwashing the Uni kids (or should I say young pretty girls - which is Forethought's discriminatory employment policy) saying this is how the consulting world is, they need to be resilient etc. - is blatant lies, along with the fact that several BIG Consulting firms are dying to acquire Forethought! Seriously!?

1.0
2 Feb 2016
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Pros

Compared to other Market Research companies, Forethought pays relatively well. The company offers continuous training, and there are constant employee promotions. Belonging to Forethought is belonging to an Elite of professionals, everyone here is the best of the best.

Cons

The pay does not really compensate the long hours we must work every week. I would prefer life balance to a slightly higher income. Forethought has several policies based on coercion to impede employees to leave the firm. For example, no employee can endorse or give any kind of recommendation about another colleague on LinkedIn. All employees must sign a confidentiality deed with very harsh restraints for after you decide to leave your job at Forethought. These restraints limit ex-employees to work in market research for 12 months in Australia with competitors or in "industries where the employer provides services to, including but not limited to financial services, banking, telecommunications, and other service industries", given that Forethought has provided services in almost every industry is hard to think a field to get your next job. Please notice that according to Fairwork Australia, this clause is "against public policy". Effective January 1, 2016 the new policies of the company do not accept a four-week notice if you want to leave the company. Besides, it requests that employees must inform the company about personal life and career plans. "People who do not includes us in their future plans and instead give us only four weeks’ notice will have their personnel file marked – ‘Not For Re-Employment.’"

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