---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-003818"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FORR"
cik: "0001023313"
company_name: "FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC."
filed_at: "2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-28T04:25:28.145129+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Forrester cuts 6% of workforce; expects $5.2M-$5.6M in severance costs

## Summary
- Workforce reduction of ~6% across geographies and functions; one smaller US office closing.
- Expected pre-tax expenses of $5.2M-$5.6M in Q4 2024 and H1 2025 for cash severance and benefits.
- Notifications began Dec 2, 2024; expected completion by Jan 31, 2025.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-003818
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FORR
- cik: 0001023313
- company_name: FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC.
- filed_at: 2025-01-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.05
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023313/000095017025003818/0000950170-25-003818-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023313/000095017025003818/forr-20250109.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-25-003818.txt

## Key facts
- Restructurings & Charges
  FORRESTER RESEARCH, INC. announced a restructuring with charges of approximately $5.2 million to $5.6 million affecting various geographies and functions (approximately 6% of its employees).
  - Type: restructuring
  - Charge: approximately $5.2 million to $5.6 million
  - Affected area: various geographies and functions
  - Headcount: approximately 6% of its employees
  source text: be completed by January 31, 2025. The Company also plans to close one of its smaller offices in the United States. The Company expects to incur pre-tax expenses of approximately $5.2 million to $5.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2024 and the first half of 2025 related principally to cash severance and related benefit costs for terminated employees. Forward Looking
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1023313/000095017025003818/0000950170-25-003818-index.htm

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