Any positive aspects are overshadowed by oppressive return-to-office mandate - Anonymous employee Lonza Employee Review

1.0
1 May 2026
Anonymous employee
Recommend
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Pros

Friendly colleagues, exposure to global positions, insights, learning, mentoring

Cons

Taking its staff back to the 1900s with Orwellian-style measures. A mandated return-to-office policy that makes no sense, no flexibility at all for staff, managers told to monitor their teams - all of this during a fuel crisis, while other companies are actively encouraging their staff to save fuel and work from home. How disappointing that a company so committed to patients and customers has decided to essentially show their greatest asset, their people, that their wellbeing is meaningless to them. It's very obvious the current CEO is interested only in the short term profits of the company, not the longevity and long term success.

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5.0
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Cons

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2.0
23 June 2026
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Pros

Compensation (for higher level associates/senior management positions)

Cons

1) Work/life balance - leaders don't honor paid time off. Many teams expect you to be available during paid time off periods 2) Benefits - employer doesn't offer employer-subsidized vision insurance 3) Holidays - employer doesn't offer MLK Day and Juneteeth as paid days off, indicating how little they value diversity, inclusion, and belonging 4) Promotions - political; not based on merit 5) Mandated 5 day return-to-office to enable "in person collaboration" while at the same time offshoring jobs to cheaper markets. 6) PTO - based on tenure, but I think Lonza prefers high turnover so they don't have to give people time off (if they even honor it in the first place - see con 1) 7) Lack of harmonization - for an established CDMO, I was surprised at the level of misalignment between sites and the lack of standardization of processes

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