Vantaggi
Get to meet great colleagues as friends (not many workplace have such blessings). In time of high workload times, helpful colleagues are available to help one another - that's how friendships are forged and formed.
Svantaggi
Workload - not stable i.e. sometimes high, sometimes low (nature of commercial labs). Unfair workload distribution by managers/supervisors. Managers/supervisors/technical leaders lack the laboratory visibility and they get the wind of lab news via admin spies and gossip monger chemists who are free (due unfair distribution). Abuse of some chemists who claiming OT Lack of career growth and development for the individuals Increment is not great i.e. achieving Exceed Expectation and get ~5% increment only. High turn-over rate - those in probation also leave.