Deaf leadership & unmotivated employees - Project Engineer National Grid Employee Review

1.0
3 Jan 2021
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Pros

- fair pay - good benefits - can underperform without penalty, rarely fire people

Cons

- management has no ambition to change status quo, or take any risk with great new ideas - unregulated business is confusing to rest of the organization, their investments have not helped electric and gas operations - best employees leave within a few years, a TON of turnover in leadership positions - too much politics and layers of management, nothing can get done quickly - younger employees discouraged due to lack of promotion opportunity and voice heard

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1.0
30 Jun 2026
Recommend
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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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