04/16/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 04/16/2024 07:49
Amazon today ranked second on LinkedIn's Top Companies list-an annual list that identifies the most sought-after places to work and grow your career in the U.S. Using data from LinkedIn's 1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide, LinkedIn's Top Companies list is designed to help professionals identify the best companies to grow their careers.
"We're able to put customers first by building outstanding, safe, innovative, inclusive and engaged teams," said Ofori Agboka, Amazon's vice president of People, Experience & Technology for Global Operations. "I'm thrilled that Amazon has once again ranked highly on LinkedIn's Top Companies list-it's an incredible honor and it's all thanks to the thousands of employees who are inventing on behalf of the customer every single day."
Here are four ways Amazon supported our employees in the past year:
Through our Upskilling 2025 pledge, Amazon creates pathways to careers in areas that will continue growing in years to come. Our company-funded training programs, such as AWS Intelligence Initiativeand Career Choice, help employees learn critical skills to move into in-demand, higher-paying technical or non-technical roles within Amazon and beyond.
As the world's largest job creator, Amazon invested $1.3 billion last year toward pay increasesfor customer fulfillment and operations employees, bringing the average pay for those roles to over $20.50 per hour(a more than 50% increase over five years).
This commitment expands on our previous pledge to hire at least 5,000 refugees in the U.S.by the end of 2024. Amazon announced our commitmentduring The Tent European Business Summit, which brought together dozens of companies to discuss the refugee crisis in Europe and highlight the role companies play in helping refugees successfully integrate in their new communities.
14 new benefits under Amazon's FamilyFlex programaim to provide more flexibility in employees' lives and the tools they need to manage unexpected financial- or health-related events. These benefits include free financial counseling, in-house cancer case management, and new temporary schedule adjustments for hourly frontline employees.
Learn more about LinkedIn's ranking and their methodology, then learn more about jobs at Amazon.