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Roche has consistently been recognised as one of the best places to work for around the world. We are proud of our achievements, so please take a look at some of our recent achievements.

	F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd has been chosen as one of Switzerland's Top Employers for 2012 and is ranked first place. This accolade is restricted to companies that offer outstanding working conditions. Read more
	Roche Pharma Germany was recently certified as Top Employer 2012 and has gained best marks (5 stars) in primary benefits and training & development, second best (4,5 stars) in secondary benefits and company culture and 3,5 stars in career development. In primary benefits Roche Pharma AG has achieved the third place of all participants! Read more
	China Roche Diagnostics China has again been awarded as “2012 China’s Top Employers” by CRF (Corporate Research Foundation) institute after having won the first award in 2011. Read more
	In 2011 Roche has been named as one of "The World's Best Multinational Workplaces". Our company was ranked 21st based on things like benefits, perks, diversity, and pay. Read more
	Roche in Austria has been honored with the Career’s Best Recruiters Award which prices the most successful employer brands in Austria. Read more
	Roche was ranked 4th in Natural Sciences in the Europe's Ideal Employers survey done by Universum. This is an improvement from last year's 7th place. This research is done amongst almost 20.000 students across Europe. Read more
	Genentech and Roche performed very well on the Science 2011 Top Employer ranking. GNE ranked 3rd and has been in the top 3 for 10 consecutive years while Roche Switzerland ranked 15th. Read more
	South Africa Roche was nominated as a Runner up at the “SAGRA Annual Awards”. Each year SAGRA (South African Graduate Recruiters Association) runs industry surveys to evaluate the following: ‘Most Inspirational Employer’ ‘Best Graduate Recruitment Strategies’ ‘Graduate Recruitment Programs’ ‘Best company to work for’ Over 81 companies participated, Roche was listed as a runner up. Roche South Africa is one of the best companies to work for as voted by the graduates.
	Croatia On 1st of June Roche Croatia were awarded 3rd place in the competition for “Best Employer 2011” organized by the biggest Croatian job portal “MojPosao” supported by newspapers Business.hr and Lider. The survey was done anonimously, all employees evaluated the employer according to 6 categories: strategy and leadership, job content, work environment and reward, individual development, interpersonal relationship, loyalty to the company and security of the job.
	China Roche Diagnostics China has been awarded as “2011 China’s Top Employers” by CRF (Corporate Research Foundation) institute on 18th Jan, 2011. After a series of evaluations on HR strategy, policy, practice and corporate culture, RD China stands along with other 29 winners - out of 450 companies. Read more
	Genentech In 2011, FORTUNE magazine named again Genentech to its "100 Best Companies to Work For" list. We were listed 35th in the overall list but made it to the 10th place among the large companies. Read more
	Switzerland Roche Basel is ranked No. 5 in 2010, coming from No. 17 in 2009 in Science Magazin’s Science Careers Top Employer Survey 2010. The major driver for the ranking: being an innovative leader in the industry. Read more
	Switzerland Roche – again, one of Switzerland’s top employers in the health/medicine sector based on the survey of Universum. The company came second in the natural sciences category, and also improved its ranking in the business sciences (now placed 8th) and engineering professions (now placed 19th) categories, compared to the results of the previous year.
	Germany Roche Diagnostics has been once again identified as one of the Top Employers for Young Professionals in the target group of natural science in Germany. About 7.000 Young Professionals were asked by Universum. Roche Diagnostics took the 3th place (together with Bayer) and continues to be a "First Choice" employer. We improved our position from five to three in 2010.
	Colombia In 2010, Roche qualified again for being on the list of Great Place to Work Colombia. This is the 7th year in a row that this achievement was reached and our company finished this year as number 19 in the ranking.
	Uruguay Roche reached the 9th position in the ranking of GPTW 2010 in Uruguay and the 1st place among the pharmaceutical companies.
	New Zealand Each year, the JRA Best Workplaces Survey reveals the top organisations to work for in New Zealand. In 2010, 245 organisations participated in the survey. Roche ranked No 9 this year. Read more
	Austria Roche in Austria, including all the three Austrian Roche affiliates, has been honored with the Career’s Best Recruiters Award. This Award was granted this year for the first time and it rewards the most successful employer brands in Austria. In total, 642 Austrian Top-Employers in 18 different industries were competing. The ranking was based on scientific standards of Austrian Employer Branding & Recruitment Research. Read more

	Denmark The 18th of November Best Worksplaces was published for the 10th time in collaboration with Berlingske Nyhedsmagasin. Roche Denmark ranks 4th in 2010. Read more
	Austria Roche Austria GmbH participated for the second time, in the " Great Place to Work " and rank No 8.
	Germany Roche Diagnostics was awared as "Top Employer for Engineers" by the crf Institute for the first time in April 2010. In the category “Job security”, Roche finished on rank 2.
	Switzerland Roche is named "Top Employer Switzerland 2010" - Based on a survey with major Swiss companies, containing a detailed questionnaire, the independant and operating Europe-wide research company CRF Institute has analyzed six categories. For the four categories company culture, development opportunities, compensation & recognition as well as work-life-balance, Roche achieved rank 1. For the two other categories market position & image as well as job security, Roche has also performed very well.
	Genentech Fostering Respect And Innovation Communication Is Key Roche has been voted fifth place, a considerable improvement over 2009's seventeenth place. Our three independent pharmaceutical research and early development units in-house to lay the foundation for innovation through diverse approaches. Read more
	Genentech *Genentech Named to FORTUNE's "100 Best Companies to Work For" List for 12th Consecutive Year* On January 21, 2010, FORTUNE magazine named Genentech to its "100 Best Companies to Work For" list for the 12th consecutive year. In selecting the "100 Best Companies to Work For," FORTUNE relies on two sources: the opinions of the company's own employees and a "culture audit" of the programs and practices at each company. The former is deemed most important, with two-thirds of the total score coming from employee responses to a survey created by the Great Place to Work Institute. The remaining one-third of the score comes from FORTUNE's evaluation of each company's answers to questions about pay, benefits, hiring, communication, culture and diversity. The most important considerations for this year's list were whether companies are hiring and the ways in which companies are helping their employees weather the recession. Genentech is the only biotech/pharmaceutical company since 2000 to be ranked among the top 20. Read more
	Switzerland In march, trendence invited industry insiders to a pre release of Switzerland’s top employers, as voted for by Swiss students. The event was the first external event in the NZZ headquarters in Zurich. Students taking part in the Technology & Science Edition voted Roche in third place as Switzerland's Top Employer.
	Denmark In the category Best Small to Medium Company in Europe, Roche Demnark ranked number 7 in 2009 (an improvement from last year's 13th place). It ended up being the best Pharma / Biotech company in this Europe survey, an improvement from last year's 2nd place.
	Germany Roche Diagnostics in Germany was assigned in 2009 with Total E-Quality for the second Time. This award, which is valid for the next 3 years, was received for Roche's successful and sustained Equal Opportunities commitment.
	Spain "Actualidad Economica" published the ranking of "Best companies to work for" in Spain this July 2009 and Roche ranked 5th overall and 1st in the Pharma industry. Click here for more information
	Spain Roche Spain participated again in the "Great Place to Work " survey and ranked 9th overall and second in the Pharma industry. The result of the survey was published last May. Click here for more information
	United States May 1, 2009 — The San Francisco Business Times has just ranked Genentech the #1 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area among local companies with more than 1,501 employees. The ranking is entirely based on employee responses to a confidential 37-question survey completed between February 13 and March 6. This is the fifth year that Genentech employees have participated in the survey and the third time we've been ranked number one. (We also took the top spot in 2006 and 2007.)

Austria

Roche Austria GmbH participated in the "great place to Work 2008" and ranked No 13 on the Top 25 employers list in Austria.
Denmark
Best pharmaceutical employer in 2008, ranked No 4 best employer on the list of all industries in Denmark. Great Places to Work Insitute performs the surveys. Pharma Denmark is No 13 on their European List.
Germany
Roche Diagnostics reached again 3rd place in the German Universum Young Professional Survey just behing two state-run companies. The ranking of industrial companies is led by Roche Diagnostics as an attractive employer.

About 2,500 e-fellows.net scholarship holders participated in the annual Employer Brading Survey held in October 2008, which is a cooperation project of e-fellows.net, TNS Infratest, DIE ZEIT and the Chair for Marketing Management at the HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management. The survey investigates what high potentials expect from the ideal employer, the appeal of different industries, functions and positions for career entry and the perception of selected employer branding. Roche Diagnostics took first place for the 4th year in a row and continues to be a "First Choice" employer.
Greece
Best Workplace organized by ALBA Graduate School
HR Award organized by KPMG.
Italy
Roche Diagnostics Italy received the Assolombarda ( regional industrial association) Intellectual Capital Value (IVC) prize awarded to the company that got 1st place in the "Multinational" category. The ICV Award is based on the ICV scheme, whose model is made up of 3 main elements: Structural Capital ( Identity value, Integration value); Human Capita (Motivation value; Competences value, Talents value).
Norway
Norway ranked No. 9 in Best Place to Work 2008. ( Survey by unlimited / JRA)
Russia
Russia ranks No 7 in the 10 best Employers in Russia out of 72 companies.
( Hewitt Associates, Best Employers Study)
Spain
Roche Pharma reached 6th position in the ranking of the preferred companies to work for - from all industry sectors.
Roche Pharma took part in "the Best Workplace" Spain 2008 and moved from ranking No 8 in 2007 to ranking No 5 in 2008.
Certified as " Family Responsible Company" granted by a foundation linked to the ministry of Employment and audited and approved by Lloyds.
Careers.Roche.Spain
UK
Roche recognised as No 2 company of Choice for Field Force. (Source pharmaceutical Field Magazine, June 2008).
Australia
Australia entered for the 1st time the Australian and New Zealand Hewitt's Best Employer Survey and achieved an overall Engagement score of 83%. This places Roche Australia as being in the high Performance Best Employer Zone.

Participation in a local climate survey titled "The Voice Survey" conducted by Macquarie University, overall engagement score of 83%. The Voice has a database of around 750 companies in Asia Pacific which it uses to benchmark against. Roche Australia is one of the top performers in the data base.

	New Zealand A total of 217 organizations registered to participate in the New Zealand unlimited / JRA Best Places to Work Survey 2008. Roche New Zealand ranked 8th in the small to medium workplace category, of which a total of 81 organizations participated.
	United States The Selling Power magazine announced in its November / December 2008 issue that Roche ranks No 1 for the sixth year in a row among the top companies to sell for in the United States. The ranking is based on responses to a survey sent to top Sales Executives, Training Managers and Human Resources Managers. The magazine's editors base the rankings on criteria in three categories: compensation, training and career mobility. Roche scored the highest with 77 total points out of 100.
	United States Roche consistently ranks among the top 20 employers on Science Magazine's annual survey of Top 20 Employers in the Biotech and Pharmaceutical Industry. Roche was named one of the top biopharmaceutical employers in the journal "Science", published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Roche was listed as No 6 in 2008, up from No 18 in 2007.
	Genentech Fortune magazine named Genentech on the "100 Best Companies to Work For" for the tenth consecutive year. This year Genentech is number five on the list. In April 2008, "the San Francisco Business Times" named Genentech number two on its list of the " Best Places to Work" in the Bay Area. The ranking was decided largely on the basis of employee feedback via an online survey. In May 2008, Fortune magazine ranked Genentech number 41 on its list of "Top 100 MBA Employers."
	Genentech In September 2008, "Working Mother magazine named Genentech one of the " 100 best Companies for Working Mothers". The list identifies companies who are using company-wide benefits and programs to ensure the retention and advancement of working mothers. In October 2008, Genentech was named "top employer in the biopharmaceutical industry" by Science magazine. Science's annual survey of Top Employers polls employees in the biotechnology, biopharmaceutical, pharmaceutical and related industries.
	Argentina Roche Argentina (including Pharma, Diagnosctics and Diabetes Care divisions) ranked No 2 among companies with 200 to 1'000 employees in Argentina, and No 1 among Pharmaceutical Companies - this was Argentina's first participation in the survey made by Revista Apertura.
	Colombia Roche Colombia ranked No 6 of the Top 100 Great Place to Work in Latin America.
	Mexico Roche Mexico ranks No 5 among the Top Companies and 1st Pharmaceutical company.
	Peru Roche Peru rank No 14 among the Top 30 Companies, and 1st Pharmaceutical company. ( Great Place to Work Institue

	Austria Roche Austria GmbH participated in the "great place to Work 2008" and ranked No 13 on the Top 25 employers list in Austria.
	Denmark Best pharmaceutical employer in 2008, ranked No 4 best employer on the list of all industries in Denmark. Great Places to Work Insitute performs the surveys. Pharma Denmark is No 13 on their European List.
	Germany Roche Diagnostics reached again 3rd place in the German Universum Young Professional Survey just behing two state-run companies. The ranking of industrial companies is led by Roche Diagnostics as an attractive employer. About 2,500 e-fellows.net scholarship holders participated in the annual Employer Brading Survey held in October 2008, which is a cooperation project of e-fellows.net, TNS Infratest, DIE ZEIT and the Chair for Marketing Management at the HHL - Leipzig Graduate School of Management. The survey investigates what high potentials expect from the ideal employer, the appeal of different industries, functions and positions for career entry and the perception of selected employer branding. Roche Diagnostics took first place for the 4th year in a row and continues to be a "First Choice" employer.
	Greece Best Workplace organized by ALBA Graduate School HR Award organized by KPMG.
	Italy Roche Diagnostics Italy received the Assolombarda ( regional industrial association) Intellectual Capital Value (IVC) prize awarded to the company that got 1st place in the "Multinational" category. The ICV Award is based on the ICV scheme, whose model is made up of 3 main elements: Structural Capital ( Identity value, Integration value); Human Capita (Motivation value; Competences value, Talents value).
	Norway Norway ranked No. 9 in Best Place to Work 2008. ( Survey by unlimited / JRA)
	Russia Russia ranks No 7 in the 10 best Employers in Russia out of 72 companies. ( Hewitt Associates, Best Employers Study)
	Spain Roche Pharma reached 6th position in the ranking of the preferred companies to work for - from all industry sectors. Roche Pharma took part in "the Best Workplace" Spain 2008 and moved from ranking No 8 in 2007 to ranking No 5 in 2008. Certified as " Family Responsible Company" granted by a foundation linked to the ministry of Employment and audited and approved by Lloyds. Careers.Roche.Spain
	UK Roche recognised as No 2 company of Choice for Field Force. (Source pharmaceutical Field Magazine, June 2008).
	Australia Australia entered for the 1st time the Australian and New Zealand Hewitt's Best Employer Survey and achieved an overall Engagement score of 83%. This places Roche Australia as being in the high Performance Best Employer Zone. Participation in a local climate survey titled "The Voice Survey" conducted by Macquarie University, overall engagement score of 83%. The Voice has a database of around 750 companies in Asia Pacific which it uses to benchmark against. Roche Australia is one of the top performers in the data base.