Does Forest Home pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Forest Home employees rate their compensation and benefits as 3.1 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Forest Home. This rating has decreased by 15% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Forest Home?

77% of Forest Home employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Forest Home 3.8 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.2 for culture and values and 3.4 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Forest Home?

Director (4) , Outdoor Adventure Staff (3) , Counselor (2) , Housekeeper (2) , Lead Technician (2)

What are the pros of working at Forest Home according to real employee reviews?

"The Staff are great people, and are very loving towards each other, they are a reflection of Jesus." ((in 11 reviews)); "Very friendly coworkers in the wait staff" ((in 7 reviews)); "Great staff" ((in 5 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Forest Home according to real employee reviews?

"Low pay and claims its because we are doing it for the Lord" ((in 9 reviews)); "Bad management, bad values, and meh coworkers" ((in 5 reviews)); "Forest Home leadership also doesn't realize how valuable their first aid team is and it's frustrating at times." ((in 4 reviews)); "The upper Management, Admin.. seem FAKE, Pretentious, they don't really care at all, they don't really understand what it takes to get things done in a camp environment, at least not from the little guy's perspective." ((in 4 reviews)); "timers minimum wage and they were paying us residentials somewhere around $5 a hour." ((in 3 reviews))

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Forest Home Reviews

4.0

77% would recommend to a friend

(79 total reviews)

Gary Wingerd

84% approve of CEO

63% positive business outlook

Ratings by category

4.2

Culture and values

4.2

Diversity and inclusion

3.8

Work/Life balance

3.7

Senior management

3.4

Career opportunities

3.1

Compensation and benefits

Forest Home has an employee rating of 4.0 out of 5 stars, based on 79 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have a good working experience there. The Forest Home employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Hotel and travel accommodation industry (3.6 stars).

Reviews by job title

79 reviews

2.0

28 Mar 2015

Look out campers!

Director

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

People get saved, have a great summer time. Some very awesome folks work there. Wonderful location. Food is good too.

Cons

For full time staff- the highest turn over I've seen, key leadership positions left empty after burn out or being fired, so many positions are set up to fail from short staffing. Low pay, unrealistic expectations, tons of blame shifting and fear. Leadership overly un-trusting of staff and churches. This results in low moral. Seen nice young people turned into unloving people in this highly legalistic environment. Preach the gospel, but don't get it as many fear for their job security every week, and witness many disconnected decisions from top leadership.

1.0

13 Jan 2018

What a joke

Anonymous employee

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

I lived in town so commute was good

Cons

Worked here for 10 years. Told me they were eliminating my position but when I came to get my final check someone else was doing my job. Let me go 2 days after my birthday and 1 week before Christmas. Real Christlike...

2.0

22 Aug 2016

Director

Recommend

CEO approval

Business outlook

Pros

Nice campus, cool values and mission, many people come and have an encounter with the Lord.

Cons

HIGH turnover- for years and years. Staffing issue with SR Leadership- nice intent, but non-relational and unaware, so the actual culture is far away from the stated values (secular companies act much more Biblical to their employees). Many legalistic rules, low employee value. They will drop you like a rock tomorrow for a nonsensical issue. Major on minors, and minor on the major issues. You'll spend 50% of your time managing board presentations/reports and dealing with political nonsense.

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