Best Large Workplaces in Biotechnology and Pharmaceuticals 2025
Employees say:
"I appreciate how open and sharing management is. The colleagues are collaborative and supportive. The first questions are never, 'Where is this? Why did you do that?' but instead are often, 'How are you? How can I help you? What support do you need?'"
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At Agilent, a biotech firm that spun off from Hewlwtt-Packard in 1999, The One Agilent Way acts as a cultural lodestar for its 18,000 employees—4,690 of whom operate out of Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the U.K. While scientific passion and rigor is required of employees, work-life balance is also foregrounded, with flexible working, paid volunteer days and a generous maternity and parental pay top-up offering as standard. A robust diversity, equity and inclusion program is active in all regions; outcomes include a year-on-year increase in women in leadership positions, 98% of Agilent employees completing unconscious bias training, and Pride events taking place globally.
"Agilent is a very special company to work for! The support and encouragement given by the management team is outstanding. By having confidence in the employee and allowing them the flexibility to do the job, the team flourishes and feels part of a wider Agilent family."
Best Large Workplaces in Health Care 2023 Employees say:
"The uniqueness about this company is the level of exposure it gives to a broad range of people, skills, projects, work. And no matter where or what background you come from, you are treated with respect."
