This company is perfect for the employee that wants to be a 'corporate slave', or that wants to be glued to their blackberry on vacations, weekends, nights, during your commute.... There is a lot of discussion regarding WLB (Work Life Balance), and it is promised during the interview process. What is not mentioned is that if you actually do request a WLB, it is both highly frowned upon -although no one will tell you this, they will just talk about you behind your back, and expected that you will still be working your full day-although you're not in the office.
10+ hour days are expected regardless of department or job, everything from craft employees up to Sr. Mgmt and everyone in between.
Another problem is the finger pointing and lack of ownership. As a power company, everything is very highly monitored, regulated, and tracked (which is wonderful!). The problem comes in when employees do not stand up for their own actions or lack of action, errors, or whatever the problem may be. There are many people that are so overloaded that they push their work load onto others, which just causes work-stress, and even worse results. Middle management does not recognize work load allocation, problems within their own team, or if they do, a blind eye is turned.
If I had to summarize, Exelon pays fairly, has good benefits, and believes in employee and community safety. My position afforded me the opportunity to talk with all different departments and levels within the organization. When I asked the question "How do you like working for Exelon," the answer was always the same...."They pay is good, but money isn't everything if you can't enjoy it and you're always here. Middle and upper management needs to realize the work loads of my/our/the team and play fair."
