Life at GSK
Employees helping communities
Employee volunteering is important to us. We encourage our people to contribute to their local communities – and give them plenty of support to do so. Over 3,000 employees made a difference by contributing over 14,000 volunteering hours.
Employee volunteering isn’t only about giving to others. It helps our people to gain new experiences and skills plus, in many cases, a deeper understanding of patient needs.
Employee volunteering day known as orange day
We launched Orange Day to give all our employees one paid day off each year to volunteer for a good cause. Employees across all locations have supported a wide range of charities and projects including work in local schools, work with differently abled, with abandoned elderly and with vulnerable children. We organise group volunteering opportunities for Orange Day based on interests of our employees and the need of the communities.
PULSE
The PULSE Volunteer Partnership is a skills-based volunteering initiative. Through PULSE, eligible employees are matched to a non-profit organization for three or six months full-time, contributing their skills to solve healthcare challenges at home and abroad.
Through PULSE, volunteers work with our not-for-profit partners to address challenges relating to healthcare access and issues affecting communities. The program enables our employees to work full-time with partner organizations, leveraging their professional expertise and knowledge for the good of the organization and society. Since its launch in 2009, PULSE has sent over 550 employees globally to support more than 100 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) across the world.
“PULSE is a great personal opportunity for individuals to experience something different in life, something which gives them the opportunity to recharge their batteries intellectually and emotionally and to open their mind to what is going on and to view things a different way. Moreover, it is a great opportunity for NGOs to get skills.”
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Our commitment to our employees’ health and wellbeing
The safety, health and wellbeing of our employees is just as important to us at GSK as the health of the patients and consumers who depend on our pharmaceuticals products and vaccines.
Our mission is to help people do more, feel better, live longer. And this starts with our own people. That’s why we’re committed to helping our people be at their best – at work and at home.
We have a range of dedicated employee health and wellbeing programmes and support services that enable employees to understand their own health and take actions to protect their health as well as that of their family – and make healthy choices that enable them to live well so they feel healthier, happier and more energised at work and at home.
We believe we are going one step further than any other multinational employer by committing to provide comprehensive preventive healthcare benefits to all our employees and their families worldwide.