Digital skills | Amazon pledges to upskill 100,000 workers

Tech giant Amazon is set to dedicate $700million (£550,000) to ‘upskill’ 100,000 of its employees, multiple outlets are reporting.

Staff within its corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfilment centres, retail stores and transportation network will be given access to training programmes designed to help them move into more highly skilled roles within or outside of the company.

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Amazon’s Upskilling 2025 pledge includes new programmes such as the Technical Academy, Associate2Tech, Machine Learning University, Amazon Career Choice, Amazon Apprenticeship and AWS Training and Certification.

“Through our continued investment in local communities in more than 40 states across the country, we have created tens of thousands of jobs in the US in the past year alone,” said Beth Galetti, Senior Vice President of HR at Amazon.