Why work at Amazon? Top 5 reasons

Amazon values all of our employees and strives to be Earth’s Best Employer by creating opportunities, progression, benefits, culture and safety for everyone who works here. Our employees embody Amazon’s 16 leadership principles and are the driving force behind our unique workplace.

Here are the top 5 reasons to work at Amazon.

A wide variety of careers are available at Amazon. Software Development, Supply Chain and Transportation Management, Data Science, Marketing and Customer Service are just a handful of the career pathways we offer. Our focus on progression and continual learning allows employees to propel their careers forward – our Career Choice programme empowers eligible employees to learn new skills for career success at Amazon or elsewhere. The programme offers to pre-pay 95% of tuition and reimburse employees for books and fees for nationally recognised courses up to a value of £8,000 over four years.

Whatever background, qualifications, or aspirations you might have, Amazon offers opportunities.

Amazon’s benefits for employees begin on day one, offering a range of support for employees and eligible family members.

This includes private medical insurance to all our regular full-time employees, regardless of their seniority, tenure, or position. We provide access to critical illness insurance, free counselling services and eye tests in collaboration with Specsavers.

Amazon offers competitive wages too, with pay for operational roles starting between £13.50 and £14.50 p/h, depending on location. This equates to annual starting salary of between £28,080 and £30,160 for full-time frontline employees across the country.

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We actively recruit people from diverse backgrounds to build a supportive and inclusive workplace. Our partnerships with universities, institutions and colleges allow us to hire candidates from a range of educational and socio-economic backgrounds. We also have initiatives that focus on gender diversity and inclusion, building skills for tech leaders from diverse backgrounds, empowering the next generation with opportunities in STEM programmes, celebrating our LGBTQ+ community, military initiatives, and more.

We are proud to be ranked in the top 50 of The Social Mobility Employer Index, and to have partnered with The Bridge Group to publish the first report on social mobility opportunities in the retail and logistics sector. We have also launched programmes that provide pathways into Amazon, such as our JOBS Project, an employability programme for young people leaving care who are not in education, employment or training.

Amazon’s inclusive culture is also cultivated through employee-led groups with local ‘chapters’ across the world. This includes Glamazon, Amazon’s LGBTQ+ group which was named as one of the top 10 global LGBTQ+ networks in the Global Diversity List and leads our annual Pride celebrations at Amazon. Other employee-led groups include Women@Amazon and the Black Employee Network (BEN) who all lead celebrations, events, education and mentoring sessions throughout the year including Black History Month and International Women’s Day.

At Amazon, we strive to offer choices for our employees that enable them to better manage their home and work commitments.

That’s why we have launched flexible work initiatives such as our term-time contracts, providing our operations employees guaranteed time off during Summer, Easter and Christmas holidays, promoting more time at home with their families. This is available to parents, grandparents and guardians of school-age children.

Amazon also offer a four-day working week to fulfilment centre employees in the UK, and flexible part-time contract for a minimum of 80 hours a month which lets employees pick and mix the shifts which suit their needs; part-day or full-day, day or night, weekday or weekend. These contracts can support people who are unable to find work due to family or other commitments that require flexibility, return to the workplace.

At the forefront of Amazon is customer-centric innovation, driven by a team of leaders and innovators that pursue excellence.

Our Leadership Principles define our culture, helping us relentlessly pursue our mission of being Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, striving to be Earth’s Best Employer, and Safest Place to Work. An example of this is Amazon’s “disagree and commit” Leadership Principle encourages everyone to speak up and have a voice, no matter what level they are, creating a workplace rich with diverse viewpoints that are key for problem solving and invention.

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