NON-SALARY DATA

The Non-salary data covered in this included:

• Hours of work

• Out of hours service

• Flexible working hours

• Nights spent away from home on business

• Basis of bonus awarded

• Basis of car/car allowance awarded

• Other benefits

• Leave allocation taken

The average hours respondents were contracted to work per week was 36.8 but the average hours respondents actually worked was 39.9. The average number of additional hours worked of 3.1 was interesting to see considering more than a third of all respondents chose work/life balance as their most important job factor. When responses from those working part-time were analysed the results were very similar with average contracted hours at 27.6 and average actual hours worked at 30.2 with the difference being an additional 2.6 hours per week.

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Nearly half of all respondents confirmed that the company they work at did provide an out of hours service, however they did not partake in its provision (45.69%). Around a fifth of all respondents did partake in the company’s out of hours service (18.97%) with the rest (35.34%) confirming that the company they worked

63 No, the company has no out of hours service Yes, the company has an out of hours service but I do not partake in its provision Yes, the company has an out of hours service and I do partake in its provision

for provided no out of hours service. This is a mixed bag and potentially down to factors such as whether the respondent worked in the department responsible for the provision of the out of hours service or if the company was a CRO or service provider who did not offer that specific service.

35.34% 45.69% 18.97%

DOES YOUR COMPANY / DEPARTMENT OFFER AN OUT OF HOURS SERVICE AND DO YOU PARTAKE IN THIS?

An overwhelming majority of respondents (88.03%) received some sort of flexible working hours, whether it be core working times with flexi-time (42.74%), full flexi-time (15.38%) or flexible hours with no set system (29.91%). These results may be linked to the high percentage of respondents who are now

42.74% working within a hybrid working environment since of the 103 respondents who had some option of flexible working hours, 98% were either fully home based or worked in a hybrid working environment. In addition, 2.6% of respondents who had no option for flexible working hours were also fully office based.

29.91%

11.97%

DOES YOUR COMPANY PROVIDE FLEXIBLE WORKING HOURS?

Most respondents did not spend any nights away from home on business (69.23%). As the grouped number of nights spent away from home on business increased, the number of respondents decreased-with 23.08% spending 1-2 nights away, 5.13% spending

3-5 nights away and 2.56% spending 5 or more nights away on business. There were no significant trends in terms of time spent away on business and other variables other than 60% of those who spent 5 or more nights away worked for innovator biotech company.

HOW MANY NIGHTS PER MONTH, ON AVERAGE, DO YOU SPEND AWAY FROM HOME ON BUSINESS?

For 69.52% of respondents, their bonus was paid on the basis of both personal and business performance. A small number of respondents were paid a bonus solely on business performance (11.43%) and smaller still was the number of respondents who received a bonus solely on their personal performance. Just over a tenth of all respondents received no bonus (10.48%) and a very small number of respondents were not aware of how their bonus was rewarded.

ON WHAT BASIS IS YOUR BONUS PAID?

Just over half of all respondents didn’t receive a car or car allowance but for those that did, 34.62% received their car or car allowance based on job grade and 2.88% on a needs basis. A small number of respondents did not know how the car or car allowance at their place of work was awarded (6.73%).

ON WHAT BASIS IS YOUR COMPANY CAR / CAR ALLOWANCE AWARDED

When it came to other benefits, pension schemes (93.4%) and private healthcare (85.71%) were by far the most common. In addition to pension schemes and private healthcare, the majority of respondents also received the following benefits:

• Paid membership/subscriptions (69.57%)

• Cycle to work scheme (61.70%)

• Ability to buy or sell holidays (58.33%)

The benefits received by the least number of respondents were profit share scheme and out of hours remuneration at 12.66% and 17.07%, respectively.