This program only covers inexpensive two year community college degrees, and only for a small number of subjects.
The subject limitation I can understand, it's not unreasonable for the employer to lock out degrees that they feel might not directly benefit the company.
But the two year degree restriction, which locks out all serious degrees and universities, has no justification other than being incredibly cheap on reimbursements. It would be better to have nothing at all since community college tuition isn't that expensive to begin with. If I was there I'd interpret this limitation as more of an insult than anything, and I have no doubt that many there will see it the same way once they look into the details.
By creating a program such as this it deflects attention from the working conditions of Amazon's employees while actually doing very little to benefit them.
I understand that you may think that $2k/year is very little, but to many people it's a small fortune. Anyway, why do you think it's necessary to deflect attention from their working conditions? Warehouses aren't the most comfortable working environments in any case, that should not be surprising. Not everything can be a nice air conditioned office.
I agree that $2,000 is a decent chunk of change, but as has been pointed out by others the hoops to jump through to get the $2,000 excludes a huge quantity of Amazon's workforce. So again, Amazon gets good PR, while conditions and compensation for much of their workforce stays the same.
Comments
This program only covers inexpensive two year community college degrees, and only for a small number of subjects.
The subject limitation I can understand, it's not unreasonable for the employer to lock out degrees that they feel might not directly benefit the company.
But the two year degree restriction, which locks out all serious degrees and universities, has no justification other than being incredibly cheap on reimbursements. It would be better to have nothing at all since community college tuition isn't that expensive to begin with. If I was there I'd interpret this limitation as more of an insult than anything, and I have no doubt that many there will see it the same way once they look into the details.
Explain how it could possibly be better to have no program at all?
By creating a program such as this it deflects attention from the working conditions of Amazon's employees while actually doing very little to benefit them.
I understand that you may think that $2k/year is very little, but to many people it's a small fortune. Anyway, why do you think it's necessary to deflect attention from their working conditions? Warehouses aren't the most comfortable working environments in any case, that should not be surprising. Not everything can be a nice air conditioned office.
I agree that $2,000 is a decent chunk of change, but as has been pointed out by others the hoops to jump through to get the $2,000 excludes a huge quantity of Amazon's workforce. So again, Amazon gets good PR, while conditions and compensation for much of their workforce stays the same.