MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Betting Big on Employee Development

Talk about how technology will affect the workforce of the future, and Amazon is likely to enter the conversation. In June 2019, the giant retailer announced that it would upskill 100,000 employees — a third of its U.S. workforce — over the next six years by spending as much as $700 million.

We believe that technological advances will continue to change job content, so upskilling will always remain an important component of Amazon’s workforce development.

It’s important to be deliberate in planning what work will fill employees’ newly available time, the skills they will need to complete that work, and what the company will do to equip them with those skills.