Building the next era of human capital
Delivery through multifunctional service centers
Productivity through hi-tech and process sophistication
Nature may be Costa Rica's best known asset, but sustainable productivity has made it a thriving destination for foreign direct investment.
Costa Rica bets on a future where human talent, sustainability and technology pave the way for development.
Technology firms, life sciences giants, services and green multinational companies are thriving in a country with a young, savvy and creative population.
Costa Rica attracts businesses who know the importance of shared growth, achieved by world-class education, process sophistication, converging technologies, multisector collaboration and innovation.
We foster high-impact business outcomes.
Committed towards becoming the next hub for life-centered solutions.
Costa Rica provides a dynamic platform for talent development, in alignment with market needs and the jobs of the future.
Talent is our greatest resource. We cultivate intelligence naturally.
in skills of current and future workforce in Latin America
WEF, 2019in TOEIC and TOEFL tests in Latin America demonstrating first class English proficiency
ETS, 2020country for Innovation Outputs in Latin America
WIPO, 2021was the year when education was declared free, universal and mandatory for boys and girls
Human Capital, Workforce Skills and Quality of Education in Latin America, Costa Rican’s are talented by nature.
WEF, 2019in Digital skills of the population, we are digitally savvy
Global Competitiveness Report, WEF, 2019Costa Rica commits 14% of total government expenditure to elementary, high school and post-high school education. Nearly double the average 7.9% of OECD countries.
OCDE, 2019Costa Rica is your strategic ally to generate impact, perform on your ESGs and achieve your sustainable development goals (SDGs). Sustainability for us is not a hype, its been part of our DNA for the past 60 years.
Where else can you be 99% carbon neutral just by plugging into its energy grid?
of Costa Rica's electricity comes from renewables.
CENCE, 2020of the national territory is covered by forests.
MINAE, 2021of the world's biodiversity in just 0.03% of the Earth's surface
UNDP, 2020of Costa Rica's land is protected: national parks, conservation and natural reserves.
SINAC; MINAE, 2019tropical country to halt and revert deforestation
World Bank, 2016Global Champion of the Earth
UN Environment Programme, 2019of the only 5 Blue Zones in the world with the highest longevity among population.
Blue Zones, 2022National Plan for Carbon Neutrality by 2050
Government of Costa Rica, 2018Costa Rica is a proven partner for enterprise-wide transformation. We are a truly technology-enabled ecosystem, a dynamic environment for innovation and R&D.
The ideal melting pot for crosswise collaboration where manufacturing, knowledge intensive services, and health & wellbeing meet to design life-centered solutions.
of total exports in Costa Rica are services. Compared to the average of OCDE countries at just 26% in the first year of the pandemic in 2020.
BCCR and Trademap, 2021billion in knowledge-intensive services exports in 2020
BCCR, 2021billion in MedTech exports, with a 33% growth compared to 2020 exports
Procomer, 2022of Shared Services are multifunctional: F&A, HR, IT, analytics, strategic sales support, automation, supply chain management, marketing & more
CINDE, 2022global Shingo Awards won in Costa Rican operations for Operational Excellence, in 2019.
Shingo Institute, 2019on multi-stakeholder collaboration in Latin America, becoming a dynamic environment to innovate
Global Competitiveness Report, WEF, 2019different business processes delivered from Costa Rica in more than 12 languages.
CINDE, 2022of Shared Services companies deliver services in English
CINDE, 2022different products are exported from Costa Rica to 151 destination countries
Procomer, 2020growth in average output per employee in Medtech and 75% growth in the services sector
Procomer; BCCR, 1999- 2020trade partners including USA, China, Europe, Singapore and South Korea, with preferential access to 2/3 of the world's GDP
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At present, Costa Rica is Amazon's second-largest services hub outside of the US with over 10.000 FTEs. Amazon Costa Rica is the nearshore solution when it comes to the Americas. Our growing team highlights the exceptional talent we've found in Costa Rica.. We have had tremendous success in getting our Costa Rican associates to provide world-class support for our customers, sellers, and internal customers.
The Costa Rica site has 3 capabilities that create a competitive advantage for us: Business Process Management, Digital and Operating Discipline. We have proven an incredible ability to "break down" a process, standardize it, and build it back up leveraging digital solutions to more efficient and effective than anyone could have dreamed. Costa Rica has become a source of talent for P&G globally
In addition to its human talent, we surely were driven by Costa Rica's location, democratic stability, good infrastructure, high living standards, favorable regulations and tech ecosystem. We are committed to making Costa Rica a Microsoft regional service hub. From San José, we support thousands of companies in their digital transformation process.
We were looking for the next generation of talent as much as a competitive cost structure. Here, we found an untapped wealth of young people that wanted to learn craftmanship with a more evolved set of capabilities in robotics and digitization, deliver precision manufacturing and be part of a forward-thinking entity.
Over the last 10 years, we consolidated in Costa Rica moving process from 14 different places in the world. This became an integrated site and a center of excellence, more than just a manufacturing location. We've managed to reduce energy consumption by more than 40%, with the installation of the largest solar panel project in the country on a single roof.