GlaxoSmithKline Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

Amazing company to work with

Cons

Great work life balance

Pros

Good benefits, GlaxoSmithKline is seen as a brand name employer, which will help with getting work elsewhere once you've gained some experience there.

Cons

Work life balance is in decline in some areas leading to unrealistic expectations and a lot of very talented people performing below their potential. The system of recognizing good and poor performers does not have enough checks and balances and is vulnerable to a few people's personal agendas.

Pros

Good flexibility in terms of working from home, exciting work and great people who work collaboratively. Good opportunities to move into other functions and learn oyhet parts of the business

Cons

Work life balance is not ideal, very high workload and a very flat organization means little room for growth. Being a large corp means that flexibility in how things are or can be done isnt easily achieved.

Pros

Great group of professional people all committed to success. Lots of opportunities to learn new things and processes to to ensure disciplined work ethic.

Cons

Management (globally and locally) always changing strategies and over-reacting rather than staying on course. Expectations are high for productivity and work-life balance is impacted. Empowerment is preached but rarely practiced.

Pros

Good benefits, employees are treated with respect

Cons

Poor work/life balance, wages are ok, communication from upper management tend to be slow and unclear in terms of directions and objectives. Politics.

Pros

The values are great. Great work environment

Cons

Work life balance can be better

Pros

Good set of People to work with interesting and challenging work

Cons

No work life balance, senior management culture lack empathy, political environment, very hard to change anything