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Amazon | July 15, 2020

Amazon is joining other large tech companies in offering on- and near-site clinics to provide primary care for its employees, the e-commerce giant announced on Tuesday.Seattle-based Amazon will pilot 20 primary care centers in Dallas-Fort Worth; San Bernardino-Moreno Valley, California; Louisville, Kentucky; Phoenix; and Detroit, covering 115,000 employees and their families with additional plans to scale in 2021 if the clinics are successful.The so-called Neighborhood Health Centers...

Amazon | June 29, 2020

Hourly associates at Amazon fulfillment centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Baltimore areas who do not have college degrees are now eligible to receive training for IT careers. Merit America, a nonprofit that helps workers develop desirable skills leading to highly sought-after technology jobs, announced a partnership with Amazon's Career Choice initiative June 23. The training can not only "close critical near-term skill gaps, but also create opportunities for their employees in the l...

PR Newswire | April 07, 2020

A new research brief documents the extent of the shift away from stand-alone defined benefit (DB) pension plans for a sample of 180 major local governments to see how it compares to the changes at the state level. In 2018, 19 percent of large localities had a defined contribution (DC), cash balance, or hybrid plan for new hires, instead of a stand-alone DB pension, up from 11 percent in 2001. These finding are contained in a new research brief, Have Localities Shifted Away from Traditional Defin...

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Eightfold.ai | February 11, 2021

Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) can now unlock the potential of the modern workforce. Eightfold AI, industries 1st Talent Intelligence Platform™, announced the expansion of its industry-leading Talent Management solution. Central to this expansion is Career HUB, which pairs sophisticated AI-driven skills with a central destination for complete career development. The primary goal for every CHRO is to attain business objectives with employee ambitions to u...