We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive company that helps us build the best range of products and services for our broad customer base. Amazon customers represent a wide array of geographies, cultures, genders, races, ethnicities, abilities, ages, religions, sexual orientations, military status, backgrounds, and political views. To build the best products and services for our diverse customers, it’s important for our workforce to be diverse, and this drives our commitment to equitable and inclusive employment and business opportunities — from prioritizing equal pay, to creating career pathways, to partnering with small and diverse businesses that help us serve our customers. We also believe that inequitable treatment of anyone—including Black people, LGBTQ+ people, Asians, women, and others—is unacceptable, and we advocate for policies designed to remove barriers to equity and create an inclusive environment for all employees.
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Amazon
Across Amazon, we remain committed to our vision to build inclusive and equitable experiences for our global base of employees, customers, and the communities we serve. We believe that our employees should reflect the diversity of the customers we serve, and that each person should be valued for their unique experiences and perspectives. We work hard at that every day, and we’ll continue building these principles into the architecture of our products, talent strategies, and initiatives for employees, customers, and communities around the world.
Celebrating Inclusivity through Employee Led Groups
We aim to create a workplace where Amazon employees have a strong sense of belonging, value, and opportunity. To help foster our inclusive culture, we support 13 employee-led groups that offer community-building, mentorship, and programs to build awareness around customer inclusion. Our affinity groups include more than 130,000 employees in over 2,000 chapters around the world in 58 countries. They play an important role in building internal networks for creating a community, advising Amazon business units, leading in service projects, and reaching out to communities where Amazonians live and work.
Meet Glamazon, Our LGBTQIA+ Employee-Led Group
Glamazon helps Amazon be a great place to work by educating and informing employees about the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer (or questioning), Intersex, and Asexual (or allies, aromantic, or agender) community and opportunities. The group mentors fellow employees (both LGBTQIA+ and allies) and promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion. Amazon is more visible within the LGBTQIA+ community-at-large by sponsoring events and PRIDE around the globe. Glamazon supported the creation of a Transgender Toolkit for managers and employees to use when going through a gender transition in the workplace. In 2023, thanks to the efforts of Glamazon working with leaders across the company, we were honored again to receive a 100 Score on the HRC Corporate Equality Index, a US benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices pertinent to LGBTQIA employees. Additionally, we were featured on The Stonewall Top Employer list, compiled from the Workplace Equality Index - the UK’s leading benchmarking tool for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in the workplace.
Amazon's Global LGBTQIA+ Office
Amazon’s Global LGBTQIA+ Office (GLO) was founded in June of 2022 to advance LGBTQIA+ equity company-wide. We partner with key stakeholders across Amazon on program and policy development, community engagement, and other priority initiatives. We work with employees, DEI leads, business partners, and community groups to coordinate across teams, offer subject matter expertise across the company, uplift existing ongoing projects, and create single-threaded leadership on LGBTQIA+ equity company-wide.
Amazon’s Position on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Who We Are
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s most customer-centric company, Earth’s best employer, and Earth’s safest place to work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon.
We’re Not Just A Great Place to Shop, We’re a Great Place to Work
Ambitious career paths and opportunities, a workplace culture designed for innovation, and a focus on sustainability and real-world positive impact – Amazon continues to raise the bar in all areas. Our employees are the driving force of our community initiatives, small business support and diversity, equity and inclusion programs. They embody Amazon’s 16 Leadership Principles and work to make Amazon the world’s best employer.
Amazon has created more U.S. jobs in the last decade than any other company. These are jobs that pay an average of $29 per hour, more than double the federal minimum wage. We also invest in employees’ well being and success through comprehensive benefits and upskilling programs. Amazon will spend over $1.2 billion to provide free skills training to employees—helping them further their careers in tech and in-demand roles such as cloud computing. Programs like Career Choice, Amazon Technical Academy, Machine Learning University, and apprenticeships offer opportunities for our corporate and operations employees to build and develop new skills, learn new industries, and participate in technical-training programs.