Catalent Pharma Employee Reviews about "work life balance"

Pros

- Good Work Life Balance -Flexible work location - Management is easily accessible - good internal opportunities to diversify career goals

Cons

-still a current employee - so none that stands out

Pros

After I sustained an injury that left me unable to work for months, they did everything they could to help me.

Cons

Communication between departments is often lacking, and work-life balance is often sub par.

Advice to Management

Realize that happy employees means happy clients.

Pros

19 days of sick leave/vacation time

Cons

They pretend to care about work/life balance and then pressure you into working long hours and coming in every weekend

Advice to Management

Your employees have personal lives that do not involve the work place. Be more respectful of their time.

Pros

Nothing good from this company!

Cons

The worse work life balance. They want you to work like a dog constant OT because they don’t know how to manager their workload and projects. Working from home is frowned upon. They don’t care about you or you’re safety when they make you stay during inclement weather. Very micromanaged like you are a child in school. Not a team atmosphere. Worse thing I did was leave JNJ where the culture is so ideal to this small... close minded company. If you have a wife and kids please consider another company. Benefits are not great and neither is the salary. I’m some cases you don’t even get a bonus.

Advice to Management

Provide better culture and work and family balance. Or hire more people. Your employees should not have to work 60 hrs a week on a salary. People don’t work well when stress. Take a look at how other companies prove work life balance. This change needs to come from the top. Give your company a new definition of work life balance.

Pros

Smart team that will go the extra mile.

Cons

Work life balance. Benefits are not good compared to biopharm. Operations not supported enough.

Advice to Management

Need to spend more on salaries to keep top talent. Need more groups on 24 x 7.

Pros

Mostly good people trying to make a difference. There are a lot of opportunities to improve the business

Cons

I found there to be little to no work life balance. A normal week for me was over 60 hours. Accounting close / forecast week was well in excess of 80 hours for me. Some days the team was required to work 16 hours or more. I worked almost every weekend. I felt like it was always the company first. I felt like employees were expendable resources to meet short term goals.

Advice to Management

I recommend doing whatever it takes to allow employees to have a moderate work life balance. I recommend extending the accounting close and forecast timelines to allow more time for thorough analysis and work. This will also reduce the number of hours that is required during close week. I recommend setting limits on how long employees are required to work. No one should be required to consistently work well... past midnight during close week.

Pros

Decent benefits, career development opportunities

Cons

Bad work/life balance (overtime culture), reminded me of high school, little recognition

Advice to Management

Slow down and promote a culture of friendliness and sanity, not stress, overtime and unrealistic goals

Pros

Great place to learn a ton of stuff since they are so understaffed most of the time, everyone has to do everything.

Cons

Extremely poor work/life balance. Subpar pay and benefits.

Advice to Management

Need complete management overhaul to improve culture and engagement.