Not a nice environment - Anonymous employee Digital Catapult Employee Review

Thank you for your feedback. It's great to hear that you are enjoying working with great colleagues and getting to work on some of our very exciting deep tech innovation projects. We do recognise that we've seen some changes at the leadership level and some have, regrettably, been in quite close succession. Sometimes this is unavoidable and based on personal circumstances outside of the organisation's control. We are working hard to ensure we keep focused on working as a team, ensuring excellent delivery and supporting people to work at their best through this period of leadership transition. We also take on board your comment about career pathways in the organisation. Following an organisation re-design that took place last year, we do need to refresh some of our career pathways and so to assure you this is on our work plan for the new financial year. We are seeing great evidence of progression in the business - in FT25-26, 14% of employees were promoted and we have many further examples of people being seconded across the business, thereby developing their skills and expanding their experience with us. Please keep an eye on our Workable site for opportunities that may interest you, or speak to your manager and the L&D (Talent) team about your career aspirations. We'd like to counter that "so many people are leaving" - indeed, over the last year, we saw out lowest level of voluntary turnover since the Covid years - well below our expected level. We do review exit interviews and have not identified a common theme about which to be concerned. We would like to understand more about your feeling that policies are being inconsistently applied - please take the opportunity to raise this with your Manager or functional SLT member, with our Employee Network or with the People team so that we can understand this better and can address your concerns.

Thank you for taking the time to share your perspective. We’re pleased to hear your positive comments about the commitment and integrity of our colleagues—this is something we’re very proud of and we always aim to ensure our team members have a positive and career enhancing experience working with us. We take all feedback seriously, particularly when it’s constructive and supported with specific examples, as that helps us better understand and act on concerns. Anonymous and broad statements without any form of context can make it more difficult to identify where we need to improve. We’d also like to clarify that our current CEO is serving in an interim capacity, having stepped up during a period of leadership transition to ensure continuity and maintain organisational momentum. This is an important responsibility and we recognise the commitment involved in leading through this change. We remain focused on fostering a positive and respectful culture, and we encourage open, evidence-based feedback to help us continue improving. If you want to hear more about what our leadership team is focused on, I'd encourage you to attend our CEO listening tours, Drumbeat and Pulse meetings. You can also share any concerns you may have with our Employee Network and engage in the culturally enriching activities they deliver.