Roche China has been named a "Top Employer in China" for nine consecutive years, ranking in the top ten.

On January 16, the internationally recognized Top Employers Institute released the "Top Employers in China 2025" list. Roche China stood out with an excellent score of 16 full marks among 156 cross-industry certified companies, ranking in the top ten for the ninth consecutive year. Notably, Roche China's human resource practices in employee well-being, recognition, talent development, and learning development are particularly remarkable, fully demonstrating Roche China's value proposition of "people-oriented".

 

President of Roche Pharmaceuticals China

Ms. Bian Xin stated

We are honored to be recognized as one of the top ten 'Top Employers in China' for nine consecutive years. This honor is not only a high recognition of the company's overall strength but also a strong affirmation of the hard work and outstanding contributions of every Roche employee. Over the years, the company's joint efforts with employees and mutual empowerment have built Roche China into an ideal workplace, making it a cradle for sustainable talent development. Talent resources and employee well-being are valuable assets and a solid foundation for corporate development. As a mission-driven company, Roche will continue to be people-oriented, continuously unleash innovative vitality, and strive to create a high-performance organizational culture to bring blessings to more patients.

 

General Manager of Roche Diagnostics China

Mr. Yao Guoliang stated

We are honored to once again receive the 'Top Employer in China' certification. This is an important recognition and encouragement for Roche China in creating an ideal workplace and promoting sustainable talent development strategies. Roche Diagnostics China has always been committed to creating a diverse and inclusive work environment, building an efficient and vibrant agile organization, while empowering employees to realize their personal value. In the future, Roche Diagnostics will continue to provide high-quality platforms for employees, work hand in hand with high-performance organizational talents, continuously stimulate corporate vitality, accelerate breakthroughs and innovations in the field of in vitro diagnostics, and bring blessings to more patients, jointly building a better future.

General Manager of Roche Diagnostics Suzhou

Mr. Ma Kai stated

Roche China has once again been awarded the title of Top Employer in China, which is a high recognition of our diverse and inclusive workplace. We firmly believe that the formation of a high-performance organization cannot be separated from outstanding talent. At Roche Diagnostics Suzhou, we actively build a learning organization, providing various platforms for employees' career development and personal growth. In the future, we will continue to practice the people-oriented concept, cultivate talent, promote innovation, and accelerate the localization of key products to respond more quickly to the needs of customers and patients, jointly promoting the development of the healthcare industry.

The Top Employers Institute evaluates participating companies' current talent practices through the 'Best Practices in Human Resources Survey Questionnaire' and certifies them based on the results. This questionnaire covers six major areas of human resources, including twenty topics such as talent strategy, work environment, talent recruitment, learning, well-being, diversity, and inclusion. Roche China scored above the average in all topics, achieving full marks in 16 topics.

People-oriented, enjoy a healthy life

As a global leader in healthcare, Roche always prioritizes the health and well-being of employees, advocating the concept of 'Enjoy Work, Enjoy Life' for work-life balance, providing comprehensive health support for employees and their families, including disease prevention, health lifestyle advocacy, health and well-being care, and mental health support. In 2024, coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the 'Roche Family Day' and the 'i-Well Employee Care Program' in China, the project attracted over 940 families and nearly 3,000 Roche family members, creating beautiful memories with Roche. The 'Roche Sports Meeting' and other health interest courses have seen participation from over two thousand employees.

Value recognition, creating a culture of appreciation

Upholding the people-oriented concept, Roche is committed to creating a diverse culture of recognition and appreciation. At Roche, every employee, regardless of their position or location, deserves recognition and appreciation for their efforts and outstanding work. In 2024, nearly six thousand Chinese employees received over twenty thousand recognitions and appreciations through the company's Applause recognition platform. In 2024, Roche established a new global recognition program for outstanding contributions, the 'IMPACT Award', aimed at recognizing and rewarding excellence and high-impact value creation in a more timely manner.

Diverse paths, exploring talent potential

Roche continuously provides systematic and diverse career development opportunities for talent, encouraging employees to broaden the depth and breadth of their career development. Through the talent development program StartUp, Roche China's seven major departments offer comprehensive development projects for young talents, exploring their potential through mentoring, cross-departmental and functional rotations, and customized personal development plans, accelerating their career development at Roche. In addition, Roche also has diverse rotation forms, with high flexibility and adaptability to various scenarios, effectively promoting talent exchange and development opportunities globally.

Self-driven growth, building a learning organization

Roche has always spared no effort in building a learning organization within the company, promoting self-driven learning among employees through diverse learning forms and resources, supported by cutting-edge AI technology, continuously enhancing their foresight capabilities and leadership to meet future organizational needs. Currently, Roche offers online and offline multi-platform and complementary course options, including gamified online courses, apps, workshops, and learning exchange circles, covering over three thousand participants, with offline courses reaching over 1,100 people. Roche's developed AI tools such as Roche Chat and Iris further enhance learning interactivity, providing employees with convenient and real-time customized development suggestions and searching for more suitable learning development plans.

Being recognized as one of the top ten 'Top Employers in China' for nine consecutive years is a high recognition of Roche China's past human resource practices and sets a positive tone for the start of 2025. As one of the leading companies in the healthcare industry, Roche China will continue to improve human resource practices and work environments, sharing corporate development achievements with employees, resonating employees' personal achievements with the corporate mission, and jointly contributing to the realization of the grand blueprint of 'Healthy China 2030'.