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Briefing
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- Upskill 2025 – Amazon announced it will retrain 100,000 employees, or one-third of its workforce, for more technology-skilled jobs in its corporate offices, tech hubs, fulfillment centers, retail stores and transportation network or new career opportunities outside of company by 2025
- Cost of Retraining – Plans to spend $7,000 per worker or total $700 million, making it among biggest corporate retraining initiatives ever announced
- Multiple Programs – Include Amazon Technical Academy for software engineering, Associate2Tech for information technology, Machine Learning University, Amazon Career Choice for other in-demand jobs, Amazon Apprenticeship for on-the-job training opportunities, and AWS Training and Certification for cloud computing
- New Jobs – Also said it will grow U.S. workforce to 300,000 in 2019
- Job Requirements – Fastest growing skilled job positions in company since 2014 include data mapping, data science, security engineering and business analysis, with also strong demand for skills in logistics and transportation
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Market Disruption
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Business Model and Practices
Business Model
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Sector
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Information Technology, Transportation and Logistics, Wholesale and Retail Trade
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Function
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Human Resources, IT Infrastructure, Supply Chain and Logistics
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Organization
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Amazon.com Inc.
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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July 11, 2019
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