Biogen CEO Vounatsos scores $2.5M raise amid investor demands for a new strategy SMH.. meanwhile great talent leaving left and right because of the relatively flat salaries year to year that don't keep up with cost of living...
this article represents everything that is wrong with this pompous terrible company. People getting laid off left and right, morale at an all time low, stock plunging in the toilet, and this fool is getting a 2.5 million dollar raise. The BOD is totally out of touch with reality and this is a kick in the face to every single employee.
This company lost its way years ago. It is now a bottom tier company, good place to start your career, get trained, and move on to a better biotech....
This is a big topic of discussion in the Cambridge offices. Really demotivating. 2 years in a row of 2% raises in a booming economy with recent corporate tax cuts. Also at a time when the local Boston-area cost of living is going through the roof, and in R&D they set up once a year review committees for all promotions and disallowed counter-offers to talented employees who get better offers elsewhere. It was a backdoor employee cost-cutting exercise to cut down on promotions and “unscheduled” pay increases. And I’m not even covering all the recent Cambridge cuts and shifting of Cambridge jobs to offshore cheap labor GBS teams, NC or remote based employees.
While I agree it wasn't warranted to give that to him let's not pretend that this is a problem limited to Biogen. This is how businesses are run here. Welcome to America.
Totally agree but with all the transparency over the need for belt-tightening.. did they..(BOD, MV) even consider this might not be warranted or even a good idea? As much as I dislike unions, I can plainly see how they gain support. .
People leaving left and right, field going on plans to thin the head count, positions being filled by underqualified people....leave while you can.
Just for the record, they have lowered NC pay bands and once we max out - no raise but a one time payout. Seems like they dare trying to make king timers and experienced employees leave. Because we “Care deeply”
Credit Suisse has decided to start offering Biogen crisis analysis, and it’s adding an influential voice backing some major changes at the bellwether biotech. “Nothing will come of nothing,” its analysts headlined in their first review of the company, pointing straight at the disastrous Phase III failure of aducanumab that has severely damaged Biogen’s market valuation. https://endpts.com/beleaguered-biogen-faces-the-music-as-a-chorus-of-critics-push-for-a-transformative-approach-to-ma/
No company will buy Biogen while the Tecfidera patent is up in the air. Most are not too confident that Biogen will buy another company. The leadership does not seem competent enough to do so. They won't pull the trigger outside of a few rinky-dink solo asset buys, where no sober wall street analyst projects any blockbusters (+$1B in sales). A long-wait and a lot of what-if's for drugs that will likely peak out at $400M-$700M tops sometime in the mid-2020's. Watch out for those who think every drug in our pipeline is a potential blockbuster. The R&D side is LOADED with those types. They're absolutely delusional.
I call it the "Emperor's new clothes syndrome". Nobody from R&D would like to challenge RDLT's belief that the tau hypothesis will work somehow.