On Thursday the online shopping giant said
that it plans to spend $700 million by 2025 to
retrain 100,000 workers, or a third of its US
workforce. This drastic step could help the
Amazon to find and keep more workers with
a strong economy and unemployment near a
50-year low, workers and have more options
in coming years. This will give the employers a
tougher time to finding help for themselves.
“The harder it is to hire workers from the
outside, the more sense it makes to invest in
training the workers you already have,” said
Jed Kolko, chief economist at job site Indeed.
The training could also help Amazon.com
tame criticism from labour groups and some
politicians, including presidential candidates,
who say Amazon’s order-packing warehouses
have poor working conditions. Workers at a
Minnesota facility plan to strike next week
during the company’s busy “Prime Day”
shopping holiday, saying that they are not paid
enough for the speed at which they’re expected
to pack boxes. Late last year, Amazon raised
the minimum wage for all its US workers to at
least $15 an hour.
At most of the in house training the Amazon
employees will get free of cost as per the
company. The company said they will offer
several programming depends upon the skill
and the job level. The ware hose worker with
no college degree will also get this kind of
services.
They could give the opportunity to trained an
employee to become an IT technician who
keeps the the computers and scanners in a
warehouse to run smoothly. And Moreover with
the high-skilled workers, like those at its Seattle
headquarters, could take software engineering
classes to switch careers at Amazon or another
company.
the employees want to build their careers in
Amazon organization. Make sure of it that for
others it might be a stepping stone to different
aspirations,” said Beth Galetti, a senior vice
president of human resources at Amazon.
“We think it’s important to invest in our
employees, and to help them gain new skills
and create more professional options for
themselves.”
More over the major retailers like Walmart and
Target have been raising pay and boosting
training to lure and retain employees and give
shoppers a better in-store experience.
Moreover the customers are less likely to come
face to face with an Amazon worker, and
the company said having better skilled talent
can help it invent more products and make
shopping more convenient for customers.
Its is the Alexa voice assistant, for example,
has been a hit for the company, allowing
customers to reorder paper towels or play a
song by talking to a voice-activated speaker.
Amazon said Thursday that it expects
its total US workforce to hit 300,000 this
year. Worldwide, it has more than 630,000
employees, making it the second-biggest US-
based private employer after Walmart.
Amazon, using its own employment data, said
its fastest growing skilled job positions over
the last five years include data mapping, data
science, security engineering and business
analysis. There is also strong demand for
workers skilled in logistics and transportation.
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