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Dive Brief:
Waste Management recently launched Your Tomorrow, an education and upskilling benefits program in partnership with Guild Education. The program offers Waste Management's nearly 36,000 full-time U.S. employees access to more than 170 fully-funded programs, including undergraduate and graduate degrees, short-term technology and business certificate programs and high school completion.
On Jan. 1, 2022, the program will expand to include employees' nearly 34,000 benefits-eligible dependents, including children and spouses.
Waste Management says it is the first company to expand education benefits to employees' dependents. After hearing from employees that college education for their children was chief among their financial burdens, "I just had this idea," said Tamla Oates-Forney, chief people officer for Waste Management. "It didn't take long for us as a company to realize that it would be a key differentiator for us."