---
id: "action-pay-for-training-time"
type: "action-item"
source_timestamps: ["§ Employees Want to Reskill—When It Makes Sense"]
tags: ["employee-experience", "compensation"]
related: ["entity-iberdrola", "entity-bosch"]
action: "Treat all training hours as paid work hours and cover tuition costs upfront."
outcome: "Increased employee willingness to participate in reskilling by removing financial and temporal risks."
speakers: ["Jorge Tamayo", "Leila Doumi", "Sagar Goel", "Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic", "Raffaella Sadun"]
sources: ["reskilling"]
sourceVaultSlug: "hbr-seg-reskilling"
originDay: 10
articleStem: "hbr-edu-34-reskilling-in-age-of-ai"
sourceUrl: "https://hbr.org/2023/09/reskilling-in-the-age-of-ai"
sourceTitle: "Reskilling in the Age of AI"
---
# Treat training hours as paid work hours

**Action.** To ensure participation — especially among hourly or shift-based workers — dedicate adequate learning time. **Treat all training hours as paid work hours and cover tuition costs upfront** to reduce personal risk.

**Outcome.** Increased employee willingness to participate by removing financial and temporal risk (see [[claim-employee-willingness]]).

Exemplars: **[[entity-iberdrola|Iberdrola]]** (all training hours = paid work hours; 3,300 hourly workers reskilled), **[[entity-bosch|Bosch]]** ("Mission to Move" covers tuition and pays for up to two days/week for a year, plus days off before exams), **[[entity-vodafone-d10|Vodafone]]** (four learning days/year), and **[[entity-amazon-d10|Amazon]]** (Career Choice covers costs in advance for 130,000+ participants).

**Enrichment caution.** Paid time and covered tuition remove employer-side barriers, but structural constraints (care responsibilities, digital divides, weak local labor markets) may still limit participation — external policy supports matter too.