Companies that invest in getting smarter
Here’s a (very) partial list of companies that are doing the intelligent thing: reimbursing employees for educational expenses. The math here is compelling: if an employee spends the time and effort to learn something, it not only benefits the employee (who gets to keep that knowledge and perspective forever) but it helps the organization as well.
Over time, companies either find smart staff or they fall behind.
We’ve had dozens of companies pay for their employees to take the altMBA, and it’s a trend we see growing over time.
If your company is on this list below, then they have paid for external learning opportunities in the past. Go ask your boss or the HR people about their policy and then sign up for something worth learning. We have some suggestions at the Akimbo workshops page.
And if we left your organization off the list, please take a minute to let us know via this form and we’ll do our best to update the list regularly.
[If your company doesn’t care enough to encourage its employees to learn things on their own, it might be worth asking why.]
3M
Acuity
Adobe
Aetna
Airbnb
Amazon
Ann Taylor
Anthem (Health Insurance, etc)
Apple
Applied Materials
Asurion
AT&T
Banana Republic
Bank of America
BestBuy
Boeing
BP
Bristol Myers Squibb
Capital One
Centene
Charles Schwab
Chevron
Chipotle
Chobani
Cisco
Citrix
Coca-Cola
Comcast
Continental
Dell EMC/Software
Deloitte
Disney
Dropbox
Ebay
Edelman
Ernest & Young
FedEx
Ford
Gap
Garmin
GE
GEICO
Genentech
Google
Hallmark Cards
HBO
Hill Holliday
Home Depot
Hubspot
Hyundai Motor America
Intel
Intuit
Johnson & Johnson
Kaiser Permanente
KIND
Kiva
KPMG
LinkedIn
McKinsey
Microsoft
NBA
Nokia
Novartis
Nvidia
Ogilvy
Optum (part of United Health)
Oracle
Orlando Magic NBA
Patagonia
Pernod Ricard
PNC Financial Services Group
Price Waterhouse Cooper
Proctor & Gamble
PwC
Qualcomm
Raytheon
Red Hat
Reddit
Sam’s Club
Sargent & Lundy
Scholastic
Scotiabank
Shell
Siemens AG
Slack
Smukers
Starbucks
T-Mobile
Target
TELUS
The Kraft Heinz Company
Ticketmaster
UBS
United Health Group
United States Air Force
UPS
Verizon
Walmart
Walt Disney World
Wayfair
Wells Fargo
Whirlpool
Whole Foods
Zillow