We live our entrepreneurial culture in a challenging, cheerful and fun environment, so working at Mercado Libre is a great experience. We believe in achieving extraordinary results in an environment that invites you to take risks, to go for more, to reinvent yourself to evolve, and to do things with excellence and as a team.

That's where our focus is: we want people to join us because of the challenges, the possibilities of undertaking, innovating, learning and developing. We seek that this culture is experienced in the same way in every corner of the region.

With the benefit we call Work from Anywhere, employees can work remotely, from anywhere in the world 90 days a year. In this way, the people of the team maintain their role and responsibilities, working in the same time zone of their country of origin. More than 400 people have already chosen this option.

To continue promoting practices that encourage shared parenting and equal opportunities, Mercado Libre evolved maternity leaves to 5 paid months (while paternity leave amounts to 15 working days). In addition, we have introduced a 20-day leave due to miscarriage to allow the physical and emotional recovery of families in these cases. All of these licenses are inclusive and apply equally for adoption and for same-sex couples.

In 2018, we have positioned ourselves as the first company in Latin America to offer a distinctive benefit such as egg preservation for those women who choose or need to extend their fertile cycle (70% of the cost of the process.)

Thanks to our technology that developed the use of the virtual wallet through Mercado Pago, we offer a 70% discount on the food item as a benefit, which apart from the change to use it in the offices, also covers supermarkets and shops near their homes using the Mercado Pago QR.

That Mercado Libre is recognized as one of the best places in the entire region to attract, develop and engage talent is a consequence of that culture put into action. All those actions are implemented thinking about our talents. Every day we are connected with our purpose: to democratize trade and financial services to change the lives of millions of people in Latin America.

Right since our beginnings, we have believed that knowledge-based innovation has a key role in the multiplication of opportunities, in the economic-productive development of countries and in the generation of quality employment.

We are moved by the energy of new ideas and those who undertake to think about the other. That is why we support social programs in the communities where we operate, promoting projects that focus on the training and inclusion of vulnerable sectors. We believe that innovation is a great agent of transformation and that is why we promote the multiplier effect in the communities where we operate.

Today, more than 1.8 million families have Mercado Libre as their main source of income. We make it easier for more than 574 thousand small and medium enterprises to run their businesses. We want this social impact to be the main reason for people to join Mercado Libre, and that they choose this purpose that has been driving us for 24 years to go for more challenges.