WestEd reviews

Thank you for your review, and thank you also for your long tenure here at WestEd! We always appreciate hearing from current employees. I would certainly agree that intelligence, respect, and dedication are hallmarks of WestEd employees. I appreciate your individual experience of the socialization level and modernity here, though I would like to refer you to our allocated budget for each office location set aside for social activities each year. There is a large diversity of work, multiple projects and programs across more than a dozen different office locations, as well as a significant percentage of our employee base who are remote workers, so one person’s employee experience may differ widely from another’s. Thanks again for taking the time to write a review – you are encouraged to bring up any concerns, compliments or suggestions to Glen Harvey directly, to your supervisor or to the Human Resources Department.

Thanks for your feedback. Our high agency standards combined with many of our employees’ high individual standards makes work-life balance critical. We certainly appreciate the importance of a clear and stated work-life balance as one of the cornerstones of a productive workforce. It is certainly true that as a non-profit the majority of our funding comes from grants and projects, which WestEd seeks out and applies for. There is a trade-off in the areas in which we work between having a large variety of work options and projects available, and having a steady stream of one kind of work only. By choosing to diversify, we create a need for ongoing funding. This is the nature of non-profits, research agencies and education providers in many organizations across the United States, and WestEd is no different in that respect. Where we do set ourselves apart is our determination to be a “best in class” agency that serves a vast and diverse client base in nearly every state. Thank you for your work while with WestEd.