Benefits Around the World

Abbott’s mission is to help people fulfill their potential through health, and that starts with you. We offer unique, differentiated benefits to our more than 110,000 employees around the world, tailored to needs in the countries where we operate.

Globally, we offer programs such as flexible work options to help employees find success at work and home, including job sharing, telecommuting and flex time. We help provide our employees and their families with financial security through competitive pay and benefits for today, and retirement planning for the future.

We extend our innovative culture beyond our health technologies and into the way we think about benefits for our employees. That’s why we’ve been honored for our pioneering programs like Freedom 2 Save, through which we help U.S. employees who are paying their student loans still set aside money for retirement. The program provides a 401(k) contribution equal to our company match to them even if they aren’t contributing to their 401(k) themselves.

Here is just a sampling of our benefits programs:

Healthcare with an option that has no premiums if you complete a wellness assessment
Our care coordinators are actual human beings who get on the phone with our employees to offer support with healthcare-related questions
Eldercare and childcare benefits, including an on-site daycare at our Illinois headquarters
Award-winning adoption benefits, including $20,000 for families adopting a child and two weeks of paid leave.
Speak to the World lets our employees around the world learn new languages for free.