Thames Water Reviews

Pros

- People focused - Passionate workforce - Great culture, “family feel” - Approachable snr management - Takes change and transformation really seriously - Doing fantastic work around diversity and inclusion, mental health and much more - Great at listening to staff and empowering them

Cons

Could be a bit better at career progression/development in some areas. But lots of learning and development opportunities on offer and several great projects underway with dedicated and passionate teams.

Pros

Good flexi hours, pensions, frontline workers normally supportive. Technical platform allows people who want to go in depth wastewater and water knowledge to develop their skills, sometimes by secondment.

Cons

Too much politics, too many reorganization. Management not very technical and have very less understanding of what good engineering and scientific outputs are and what required to deliver such outputs. Hence rely heavily on external consultancy who charge the business fortune but still heavily rely on resources and outputs from internal technical people. Internal technical people have almost no recognition and... respect, and felt suppressed and frustrated. Some benefits such as family health care cover only applies to management level above. However frontline workers equally do a good job and literally carry out the work. Shouldn’t they deserve to have something similar?! Recent organization pushed out really good ethical technical people. Nowadays the culture promotes “talkers” who take others work to shine, instead of the real good “doers” who deserve the credit.

Advice to Management

Understand who you got, what they have done and what they can do first, before going externally.

Pros

Good employee benefits at work

Cons

Too much change at the top

Advice to Management

Stability

Pros

Close to Train Station in Reading

Cons

Too many restructures, poor management. Lots of experienced staff that are never listened to.

Advice to Management

Less re orgs. Mental health isn’t just knowing it’s there, it’s knowing how to deal with it.

Pros

Close to train station and town centre

Cons

Commerical department headed up by an arrogant Leadership team, its very much if your face fits. P2P team leaders are two faced snakes who mirco manage and bully staff. Far to many chiefs amd not enough Indians

Advice to Management

The company needs a complete restructure starting from the CEO down.

Pros

Teamwork, Pension Plan, SickPay, Annual Leave

Cons

Average salary, Lots of Driving

Pros

- Company's office by the station

Cons

- Management team gives no direction to subordinates - Micromanagement, being monitored for everything that I had to do within a day - Flexible working is saved for senior management - Favoritism within the team - Lack of training - Clique teams, no acceptance of diversity

Pros

-Good facilities at Head office

Cons

- No guidance on progression - No appreciation for staff - Management to busy for 1-2-1 - No real induction process

Advice to Management

Spend time with your employees, especially those who have been identified at risk of redundancy. Show some sort of appreciation for the work!