Has eye on greed at the expense of his employees. - Administration Assistant National Grid Employee Review

2.0
Aug 22, 2008
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Large company with many departments. Good employee networks especially WIN (Women In Networks). It is good that it is investing in its brand and overall market worth.

Cons

Distrustful management atmosphere with silo mentality, and generally disrespects educated qualified staff working at the bottom of the organisation. Large sections of the legacy staff at middle and junior management positions are ill educated and ill informed and try their best to discourage any development for their staff. Unfortunately they do not understand their jobs or the environment of a modern commercial environment.

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1.0
Jun 30, 2026
Recommend
CEO approval
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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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