Challenging to have a good work-life balance - Senior Analyst National Grid Employee Review

2.0
Jan 18, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Good benefits, jobs security, flexible work schedule if you have commitments outside of normal work hours. Some people at the Company are really smart and good at what they do. Lots of teams in the Company are doing really interesting work.

Cons

Depending on what team you are on you can either have a great work life balance or a very poor work life balance. I've rarely worked a 40 hour work week for the past two years (supposedly a benefit of working at a utility) and have worked numerous weekends. It takes months and months to hire someone even after your team gets approval. While there are some people at the Company who do great work there are many people who have been here years or decades that just do the bare minimum to get by. The bonus structure also does not really motivate high performers (In a "typical" year low performs would still get a total of a 7.5% bonus in my position, and high performers typically get up to 12.5%) not exactly a big range between those doing the least an those doing the most. Many people often rarely make deadlines as well with no consequences. This comes back to the Company's inability to hire people in a timely manner. There are seemingly never any severe consequences for not performing and meeting deadlines (besides perhaps being held back from a promotion or having a slightly lower pay increase than coworkers). Management also seems to feel the need to a restructuring at least every two years.

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1.0
Jun 30, 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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