Used to be an exceptional place to work - Anonymous employee Guttmacher Institute Employee Review

Guttmacher has an exceptional reputation in the SRHR field for the research we produce which is entirely fair and merited. However, the past 3 years have been really difficult internally and I wonder how long this great reputation will last given how messy the day-to-day operations at the Institute are. After weathering the storm of 2018's sexual harassment case, Guttmacher employees really just wanted to be heard and to work at place that lived up to the values of reproductive justice and equity...unfortunately for us, our new CEO and the wall of execs she's built around her have had other plans. Within the past year the CEO and executive team have demoted and fired long-standing staff in retaliation for speaking up about racism and inequality in the office, refused hazard pay to admin employees that they essentially forced to commute to the office during the early months of the pandemic, announced a surprise mandatory return to the office this summer despite a grueling year of impressive work from home output, and most recently sent out an inappropriate, immature and vaguely threatening email to all staff about a tweet they didn't like. Most people I know are looking for work elsewhere. It's pretty clear that Guttmacher execs are mainly interested in looking good to funders and peer institutions, not actually modeling the values of equity and "parity" that they preach. And FYI, hiring mostly Black and brown people to boost the Institute's employment diversity statistics and then treating them poorly is actually not anti-racist, despite how hard the exec team is selling it.