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.

• Flexibility breeds content