It seemed good until it wasn’t - Anonymous employee NW Natural Employee Review

2.0
25 Jan 2024
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

Decent benefits (healthcare a little spendy), Union - though I’m not sure they do much for office workers, Pay is okay.

Cons

Moved to a shiny new office downtown which increased employee parking costs about 5X. Forcing employees who can and have done jobs remotely, productively for 3 years, to come back to the office for no honest reason. New downtown office is smaller and people are too close together. Outdated ‘open office’ concept and smaller conference/meeting rooms is not the best timing in the era of Covid, flu, RSV, Use employees in ‘temporary development opportunities’ only to not hire them when a position becomes available. You need to be in the favorited club to move up here.

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5.0
22 Aug 2025
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Pros

Great benefits and company culture

Cons

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2.0
2 Mar 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

Overall company culture is a good one. Long-time employment is a staple of the organization when a company has been around as long as Oregon has been a state! It's not unusual for folks to be there 10, 20, 30+ years. Co-workers were great to work with, and there are some managers who are really terrific!

Cons

Sadly, there is a prevalent bad practice of promoting folks into management roles without really giving them any management training. The sole reason they're promoted is seemingly because of which Sr Manager/Director they're friendly with and/or how long they've been working for the company. Lots of favortism! There are people in those upper positions who have no business managing people. Then there is shock & surprise when long-tenured employees express burnout or make the difficult decision to leave the company.

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