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Trailblazing women at Roche

Discover how Roche has been advancing gender equality since 1896: There have always been women who inspired us by questioning the status quo.

International Women’s Day

On International Women’s Day, Roche celebrates our progress in building that culture and renews our commitment to #beboldforchange in support of gender parity.

Our purpose

Who we are, what we do, and why we come to work each day.

Roche Commissions: our commitment to out of the ordinary music

Roche Continents celebrates 10th anniversary

Our recent awards

Roche and its employees make their mark – and are rewarded for it! Time and again over the last few years, Roche has been rated by independent business journalists and institutions as an especially attractive employer.

A tale of two sites

Twenty-one thousand Roche employees work in Basel and San Francisco. What do these cities have in common, apart from their employer?

Science and art combine to innovate in first-of-its-kind youth music programme

Orchestral compositions by inaugural winners of 'Roche Young Commissions' premiered at Lucerne Festival

A pioneer of industrial architecture

“What a city has to say must find expression in its architecture.” This statement by Walter Wallmann, the former Lord Mayor of Frankfurt/Main, is equally true of corporate architecture.

It's all in the mind: The value of slowing down

The value of slowing down and renewing oneself is what these Genentech colleagues are trying to teach

Let's live better

Roche Argentina program aims to bring about balance and well-being in lives of employees.

Animating employees with art

Cornelia Dietschi has been Head of the Art Service and Art Collection at Roche for the past ten years. Her work is as full of challenges, changes and surprises as ever.

Sustainability: Creating value for our employees

For the sixth consecutive year, we have been recognised by the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) as the Group Leader in sustainability within the Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry. Were grateful for the recognition, but even more were proud of the people who made this happen: our 85,000 employees.

Green Information Technology: Reuse and benefit

Green IT is neither a buzzword nor a project that is doing the rounds within Roche IT.

Open and proud of it!

The Out Proud and Equal Network (OPEN), was launched at the Basel Diversity Leadership Summit held in 2012.

Genentech facility's solar panels tap into ever present energy source for power

It is almost always sunny in California. And to make sure that the suns power is harnessed in the right way Genentechs Dixon, California, facility has recently installed solar panels on its parking lot to tap into this free source of renewable energy.

Using mobile learning to stay ahead

Whether theyre on the tram, at the beach or in the park, the tiny voice in their ear is a must-have or rather must-hearat least for digital natives.

Woman of substance tells us about working in Tehran

Of the 30 employees in the Roche office at Tehran, a majority are women. One of them is Nazanin Parsanejad who works in the medical team as Clinical Research Associate. And this is not a surprise either for her or other women working at Roche or in the pharmaceutical business in Iran.

Our Basel building still relevant 70+ years later

On 14 February 1936, architect Otto Rudolf Salvisberg handed over the key to Building 21 with the following words: May this administrative building and the form it takes convey an impression of our time to future generations; may its wide open windows and bright interiors outlive the age of closed walls and bring good fortune and blessings to those who have built it.