Does Genentech offer "Summer Fridays?"

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I work for a small biotech and I'm petitioning for "Summer Fridays." This would be half-days every Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day. I need to compile a list of benefits offered at bigger biotechs. Does Genentech offer anything like this? What do other companies offer?
 






Yes most take Monday off and half a day on Friday. Others work when they feel like it and some, well you guessed act like they work but never accomplish anything!!!!!!!
 
























Anonymous said:
I'm suprised is there really any true Roche Legacy. Between the Nutley and Roche Field Force massacres, I would guess there are very few true Roche people left.
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Not that many and the genetechies are counting down the days until they can be rid of Roche legacy forever. But in the meantime, they really care about us and are doing everything possible to find us jobs within genetech.
 






Anonymous said:
I work for a small biotech and I'm petitioning for "Summer Fridays." This would be half-days every Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day. I need to compile a list of benefits offered at bigger biotechs. Does Genentech offer anything like this? What do other companies offer?
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You can't be serious.
 












Anonymous said:
I work for a small biotech and I'm petitioning for "Summer Fridays." This would be half-days every Friday from Memorial Day to Labor Day. I need to compile a list of benefits offered at bigger biotechs. Does Genentech offer anything like this? What do other companies offer?
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Pfizer is the only company I know of that offers summer hours (not summer Fridays). I hope you are not petitioning too hard or you could petition you way out of a job. All "summer hours" means is that you don't have to work your regular 9 on Friday, unless you are on a business critical project, which almost all are deemed BC, they no longer have non BC projects. If you are observing summer hours you might soon be observing them in the unemployment line.
 
























Biogen used to have summer hours w/ half day on Fridays allowed. EXCEPT for SALES!! Everyone in the home office qualified, but if you are in sales, your butt better be out the door selling!! Don't know if they will still have this policy with the new big pharma regime running Biogen now.
 






This is funny. I work in the office. I would estimate 75% of the offices are empty, even in the groups like development. Everyone is working from home so they say. Basically, this is the unwritten code that you will probably wake up and send off a couple of emails, and you will answer a few as well. I highly doubt that more than 10% of the folks are actually working on any Friday. I know a lot of folks claiming to work 60+ hours/day. These people are full of it as they have the time to "work from home" on Friday. Email volume could be tracked for a Friday, and the metrics would likely show a 50% reduction in email.

We do offer summer fridays, but we also offer spring, fall and winter fridays as well. HR would be happy to talk to you about this any day of the week, except Fridays, when they are working from home as well, and conference calls on Friday after noon are just plain wrong.
 






I agree. I'm in an office job and out of 20 people in my department, there are usually no more than 2 in the office on Friday. This is the case all year long. On Monday-Thursday, we get maybe 5-6 people who bother to come in to the office. I rarely see anyone face-to-face. I no longer worry that I've repeated an outfit during the week since there's no one who would know.
 






Anonymous said:
Anyone who has ever worked in the field would find this entire thread incredibly ridiculous.

Unbelievable.
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I worked in pharma for 15 years before the layoff last year,

I can honestly say I never worked a Friday, dont get me wrong work it if you want to , but if you cannot get your work done monday - Thursday then yo uare not working smart.

My joke was always " Fridays, we work Fridays"

Once you ask for something like this it becomes another form of management to watch you.
 












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