Great work-life balance, too many decisions by committee (lower stress, higher frustration) - Anonymous employee National Grid Employee Review

4.0
Nov 3, 2022
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great flexibility, culture is much more accepting of life challenges compared to consulting and other service first organizations

Cons

As a regulated utility there is little incentive to be drive hard efficiencies, more risk aversion than pragmatism, supporting functions (especially IT) is terribly inefficient and disconnected from electric and gas businesses

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
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Pros

At NGED the few pros are lessened by the day as the cons are increasing. The idea of a career has gone and now most are resigned to just having a job.

Cons

Aside from the reality being very different from what the leadership team sell IE they don't care about people or net zero, it's all spin and marketing. Now at NGED we are in a situation where staff you have known for many years simply disappear from duty and no one seems to know why, a couple of weeks later they have left the business with an NDA. It's happening all over the business. There seems to be a drive to remove any leaders who have industry technical knowledge and replace them with people from outside the industry who knows little to nothing about electricity. Despite safe to say being an important value, speaking out against this usually results in an NDA. It's toxic positivity where playing along seems to be more important than the role you fulfil.

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