The company encourages its employees to participate in a minimum of 40-80 hours of training per year. The training programs focus on areas critical to Lucent's business including software development, hardware, wireless technologies and diversity. Lucent delivers about 25 percent of its training via multimedia outlets. The company offers numerous external programs with leading universities including the Distinguished Executive Education Programs, the Critical Masters programs and numerous distance learning programs leading to either a bachelor's or master's degree. Lucent also supports an extensive tuition assistance program for its employees who pursue graduate, undergraduate or certificate degrees.
Many Lucent employees are active in the IEEE and hold key leadership posts.
Lucent employees contribute to many of the IEEE's publications, including books, journals, magazines and standards. Lucent maintains an extensive online subscription to many IEEE technical publications.