All four offer their employees various training and advanced study programs. Employee training costs at Hewlett-Packard, for example, reach nearly US $ 300,000 a year, not including staff training personnel.
無論飛利浦、福特、惠普、老爺，都對公司內的職工提供各種訓練與進修計畫。拿惠普來說，他們每年花在派員受訓的費用即高達新台幣一千萬元，若把同仁自任師資而省下的教師鐘點費也加上，就更可觀了；飛利浦每人每年受訓的時間，更高達工作時數的百分之一。