Others reskilled during the pandemic, using furloughs or other supports as a way to fund learning and development.
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Whats the advantage?

Returnships are paid and benefit-eligible, providing a structured environment.
Returners receive work assignments to help them reintegrate into the workforce and get used to Amazons way of working.
AtOracle, a cohort community is one of the selling points of its Career Relaunch program.

There are other advantages, too.
Program length is a factor as well.
After all, these are experienced professionals, they just need some reintroduction into the workforce.

Any downsides?
However, at Amazon, the program is more akin to how a regular internship works.
Regardless of the outcome, it is hard to look at a returnship as anything other than broadly positive.