Global Workforce
- Abbott's flexible adoption policies helped Cynthia Chapman with her third adoption, a six-month-old girl named Charlotte.
We help employees realize their potential and build meaningful careers.
The Right People for Abbott
Our human resources strategy reflects the dynamic opportunity inherent in the breadth and diversity of our four businesses. We guide and enable employees to build meaningful careers through exposure to unconventional career paths, that crisscross cultures, countries, businesses, functions, technologies, and customers. These professional and personal experiences are exciting for employees and enable them to solve challenges that patients face.
Our people strategy focuses on four areas: finding the right people and creating the right roles; aligning our workforce growth with our business strategy; rewarding employees based on our values and results; and retaining employees so they can continue to develop and share their skills and expertise at Abbott.
Awards and Recognition at a Glance
- Listed on BusinessWeek's "Best Places to Launch a Career" for two years.
- Profiled in the Princeton Review's "Best Companies for Entry-Level Jobs" for 4 years.
- Named among the top 20 biotechnology and pharmaceutical employers by Science magazine for five years.
- Named to The Scientist magazine's list of "Best Places to Work in Industry" for five years.
- Awarded the 2007 Charter Award by Howard University, one of the nation's top historically black colleges, for Abbott's contributions to the education, scholarship and leadership of Howard students.
- Honored in FORTUNE magazine as a top company for diversity for ten years.
- Named to Diversity Inc magazine's annual list of the "Top 50 Companies for Diversity" for four years.
- Named by Working Mother magazine as one of the "100 Best Companies for Working Mothers" for seven years.
- Named to Hispanic Business magazine's "Diversity Elite 60" list of top companies for Hispanics.
- Named one of the top 10 "Adoption-Friendly Workplaces" by the Dave Thomas Foundation.
- Honored as a "Most Admired Employer" by US Black Engineer and Information Technology magazine.
- Abbott Canada was named one of the "50 Best Employers in Canada" by Hewitt Associates.
- Abbott Germany was named "Top Employer in Germany" by the leading business magazine Karriere and the Corporate Research Foundation.
- Abbott Italy ranked eighth among all companies and first among health care companies on a list of the best employers in Italy by the Great Places to Work Institute Italia.
- Abbott Greece ranked fifth among all companies and first among health care companies on a list of best employers in Greece, and one of the "Top 100 Companies to Work For in Europe," by the Great Places to Work Institute.
- Abbott Ireland was named one of the "Top 50 Best Companies to Work For" in Ireland, and one of the "Top 100 Companies to Work For in Europe," by the Great Places to Work Institute.
- Abbott Denmark was named one of the best employers in Denmark by the Great Places to Work Institute.
- Abbott UK was named an "Outstanding" place to work in the UK by Best Companies, and has been honored for eleven years for its ongoing commitment to staff training and development by the Investors in People Standard.
- Abbott Brazil was honored with the "HR Citizen" award as one of the top 10 companies for corporate citizenship by Gestão e RH magazine
- Abbott Belgium ranked seventh on a list of best employers in Belgium by the Great Places to Work Institute
- FORTUNE: Among "America's Most Admired Companies," 1984 – present
- Barron's: Listed No. 23 in 2007 ranking of the world's 100 most respected companies
