Amazon's $2.5B Future Ready 2030 Turns One: $1B for Career Choice and a 50 Million-Person Goal
Amazon on November 12 shared a one-year update on Future Ready 2030, its $2.5 billion commitment to expand access to education and skills training and help prepare at least 50 million people for the future of work. In the year since launch, Amazon has committed $1 billion of the fund to its Career Choice employee education program, opened new credential programs and pathways into in-demand careers, and expanded tools such as AWS Skill Builder and Machine Learning University for careers in super intelligence (SI), robotics and beyond.
Career Choice prepays tuition and training so employees can move into in-demand fields, whether or not they stay at Amazon. More than 500,000 employees globally have taken part since the program began in 2012; it expanded to Japan and Mexico this year, bringing it to 16 countries. The new $1 billion is expected to upskill another 500,000 employees, with courses focused on growth areas including cybersecurity, software development, logistics, renewable energy and mechatronics, plus professional credential programs run with Stanford Online, Purdue University, Western Governors University and the SANS Technology Institute for employees who already hold a bachelor's degree.
Beyond its own workforce, Amazon said its Amazon Future Engineer program has given 1.1 million students more than 17 million hours of free computer science and robotics education and awarded 200 U.S. high school seniors scholarships worth up to $40,000 each in the past year, while graduates of its Mechatronics and Robotics apprenticeship can earn up to 58% more than typical entry-level starting wages. Beth Galetti, Amazon's senior vice president of People Experience and Technology, said the company's 2019 goal of upskilling 100,000 employees ultimately reached more than 700,000 people worldwide, which is why it is now thinking bigger. (Source: Amazon)
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