Personnel and Organisation

Number of employees rises sharply

May 2008 saw the launch of a new and intensive recruitment campaign with the aim of filling 200 vacancies. The recruitment campaign was extremely successful and by 31 December 2008, 210 vacancies had been filled. In addition, 147 employees of regional grid operators were taken on as a result of the transfer of management of the 110 kV and 150 kV grids to TenneT. In 2008 the total number of employees rose from 567 to 838, an increase of nearly 50 percent. At year-end 2008 there were 355 external staff working at TenneT. As in previous years we needed to bring in these specialists for difficult-to-fill vacancies and for projects and special assignments.

Workforce of TenneT Holding B.V.

The average age of TenneT employees showed a slight increase from 41.7 years in 2007 to 42.3 years at the end of 2008. Women make up 21 percent of our workforce. TenneT is still finding it difficult to recruit women to technical positions. Furthermore, the percentage of women fell in the year under review compared with the previous year, when women made up 25 percent of our workforce. This is partly due to the large number of employees (147 in total) who transferred to TenneT from the regional grid operators, of whom only two were women.

Age breakdown of TenneT Holding B.V. workforce

Workforce data of TenneT Holding B.V.

* Average length of service includes employment with TenneT's legal predecessors.