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Wellbeing

As a company whose success depends on the creativity and performance of its workforce, Roche respects its employees’ need to strike a healthy balance between personal and family responsibilities, and their careers. Our approach to promoting work–life balance varies from country to country, but is always based on a straightforward principle: we want to help our employees perform to their full potential.

Wherever possible, we meet employees' requests for special working conditions. We offer a variety of working arrangements (including part-time, flexi-time, sabbaticals and parental leave for men and women), childcare facilities (for example kindergartens and childcare centres), and other provisions that help employees combine their career and family roles. We comply with all local legislation and in many cases go far beyond legal requirements. Roche offers the option of part-time employment wherever job requirements permit.

Our wide range of well-being programmes at sites around the world includes free medical check-ups, workplace ergonomic evaluations and counselling. We also provide healthy options at staff restaurants and fitness centres at many of our sites to encourage employees to lead healthy lifestyles.

Employee-Reward

Case study – Flexibility breeds content
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We realise that our employees have lives outside Roche, and helping them to balance their work and personal lives will help us retain top talent. Flexible working means giving staff the option to work part-time or from home, and appeals particularly to women who have children.

We’re currently testing the waters at our headquarters in Basel – offering flexible work more often and learning from experiences at other sites. Employees can take advantage of flexible options depending on the nature of their job and their ability to work productively away from the office.

Our accountants in the Corporate Finance Informatics (CFAI) department know this better than anyone: their department is a showcase of flexible working. "It’s important for line managers to trust employees’ reports, while they in turn must show that they won’t abuse that trust. The performance has to be there," says Susanne, Head of CFAI.

Flexible working can show that a modern company like Roche can provide successful careers alongside a rich and fulfilling home life.