Quintiles at the 18th place and Novartis at the 25th are the only two companies from the lifesciences industry segment to make it to the World’s Best Multinational Workplaces list this year. Quintiles has been named to the Best Multinational Workplace list in each of the ranking’s three years of existence.
To qualify for the World’s Best Multinational Workplaces List, companies must have been selected for at least five national ‘Great Place to Work ‘ lists, have at least 5,000 employees worldwide and count at least 40 per cent of their global workforce outside of the company’s home country.
Quintiles received individual Great Place to Work awards in 2013 for its operations in Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, Scotland, Spain and the UK.
Novartis qualified for the Top 25 World’s Best Multinational Workplaces as a result of being included in 11 Great Place to Work lists in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Germany, Greece, Mexico, Portugal, Spain and Venezuela.
The list measures workplaces through five dimensions: credibility, respect and fairness (attributes of trust), as well as pride and camaraderie. Novartis ranked highly on the pride associates take in their work, their teams and the organisation. The company also scored well for its credibility and camaraderie among employees. Overall, Novartis received a high score on the Trust Index, which measures employee perceptions of their workplace.
EP News Bureau – Mumbai