Decent place to work - Senior Research Associate Institute for Intergovernmental Research Employee Review

Management, the mission is great, great benefits, caring community

Grant funding is volatile, can be unstable

It is a small company so, everyone knows one another. Many people have been in the company since inception (It was starts in the 1980s). They put family first - one of their major selling points in beginning the work day 8:30am to allow employees to drop off their kids.

Unfortunate timing. The abrupt changes in the economy and funding of federal grants in 2025 really put the company in a bind. IIR suffered a massive layoff of precedented proportions.