What are perks and other benefits like at PCI Pharma Services?

The lab people are nice.

This company is a complete joke. They expect absolute dedication, constant high performance, and full availability, yet give nothing meaningful in return. The pay is low, the workload is ridiculous, and they’ve stripped away any remaining benefits or flexibility we used to have. Work-from-home? Gone. Flexi-time? Gone. Need time off for a doctor’s appointment, school run, car MOT, or even pregnancy sickness? Tough luck, use your annual leave. There is ZERO compassion, ZERO understanding, and ZERO effort to support staff with real lives outside of work. You’re expected to drop everything for this place, but when you need help, they’re nowhere to be found. The worst part? They don’t even pretend to care anymore. Concerns have been raised again and again, but HR and management don’t listen. Employees are leaving, people are burning out, morale is at rock bottom, and still nothing changes. Instead, they waste time on fake PR, like volunteering days planting flowers, to make themselves look good online. If a regular employee asked to do that? They’d be told no. Always no. And now, to top it off, they’ve taken away four days of our annual leave to cover a forced Christmas shutdown. Not everyone wants that time off. Some people have other commitments, others find the holidays isolating, but none of that matters. You don’t get a choice. You’re just told what to do, when to do it, and how to feel about it. We’re not asking for much, just to be treated like human beings. We have lives. Families. Responsibilities. Mental health struggles. But instead of supporting us, this company continues to take more and more, until there's nothing left to give. No flexibility. No appreciation. No respect. Just top-down control and hollow “celebrations” no one asked for, like a hog roast, while our bonus stays stuck at a measly £400. This hog roast, yeah people can come and have free food, but if they take more than their lunch time "celebrating" with everyone, we then have to work the extra time to make up for it. We don't get the afternoon off to have fun like HR will, who will pretend to over see the whole thing. Who is going to do the work? We would rather not have a stupid hog roast and leave on time, and go home to my family! Or the doctors! Seeing as I cant do it in work time. This place is miles behind the rest of the world. You’re not just overworked, you’re micromanaged, underpaid, and completely disregarded. If you value your sanity, avoid this company at all costs.

The perfect place to start off in pharma or to change similar role into one based in pharma. Managers provide excellent training and a real feel of togetherness in the team during tough times. Not expected to do overtime and great holiday benefits and hybrid working option. Progression is very much built within the company and they will always train you up for the higher role. You visibly see senior leadership of the site each day so don’t feel you are being managed from affair.

Salary is limited, salary compared to rivals is also a lot lower. Non competing clause in contract can make it difficult to leave sometimes. Site is based middle of no where so commuting has to be by car really. A lot of West coast clients means calls are later in the day.

Minimal micromanagement, generally positive/casual atmosphere, growth opportunities, decent benefits, 4/10 schedule, diverse-enough crew that racial, religious, etc. discrimination is rare

Lack of transparency/communication from higher-ups, terrible pay/bonuses, plenty of fakeness/throwing others under the bus in the name of professionalism, unpredictable workload anywhere from swamped to doing absolutely nothing

Culture of engagement, opportunities for growth, decent benefits, remote work

Pay could be more competitive with other pharma companies

IT department was really friendly, knowledgable and always had opportunities for learning professional development. The global IT director is a great manager to work with.

PCI bought out LSNE. Benefits tanked. Prior to the accusation the pay and benefits were amazing.

friendly colleagues, flexible hours, good benefits

too many new people, fast growth

- Work life balance - Higher Management are approachable and knowledgeable - Peers are friendly

- Processes, SOPs must be harmonized across all PCI facilities. This is currently being worked on. - Better benefits (free internet, gym etc.) must be offered for work from home employees are required - Better salaries and annual increments must be offered considering the cost of living crisis in the UK

The benefits are decent enough.

Pay No work from home Attendance point system is inflexible

Learn some new skills with using a variety of different equipment.

Management are clueless HR are the worst department. Micromanagement Training is rubbish. Average pay. People don’t leave jobs they leave managers. The retention and turnover figures in this company says a lot. The upper management all haven’t got clue how to run a business, none of them trust their staff therefore there is a massive blame culture and intensive micromanagement. Instead of listening to their staff on how to improve they bring in new external LEAN companies every couple of months and implement the same changes each time with ultimately fail and put everyone in a worse position. HR are even worse and don’t know their own policies they’re meant to enforce and just lie constantly. They’re more concerned about sending emails about going litter picking than actually doing their jobs. The training is pretty much none existent but then you’re blamed for any mistakes made straight away. The pay isn’t great, your annual pay rise is something like 2-3% doesn’t even cover inflation. In terms of benefits the company don’t do much for their staff, you get a £50 Amazon voucher at Christmas and they’ve started doing a hog roast for the past 2 years in the summer time.

Excellent benefits and salaries are ok

Management issues should be dealt with