A new report shows that, even after businesses announce dropping college degree requirements for jobs, most hire college graduates anyway.

This article outlines an opinion that organizations either tried skills based hiring and reverted to degree required hiring because it was warranted, or they didn’t adapt their process in spite of executive vision.

Since this article is non industry specific, what are your observations or opinions of the technology sector? What about the general business sector?

Should first world employees of businesses be required to obtain degrees if they reasonably expect a business related job?

Do college experiences and academic rigor reveal higher achieving employees?

Is undergraduate education a minimum standard for a more enlightened society? Or a way to hold separation between classes of people and status?

Is a masters degree the new way to differentiate yourself where the undergrad degree was before?

Edit: multiple typos, I guess that’s proof that I should have done more college 😄

  • Harbinger01173430@lemmy.worldEnglish
    35·
    9 months ago

    Just because I got A++ in college doesn’t mean I wanna go the extra mile for your stupid ass company or believe my coworkers are a second family, you corporate wastes of space. I’ll do the bare minimum as long as I get paid enough to enjoy life and have a family. College was fun, working is not.

    • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      11·
      9 months ago

      It seems like businesses have forgotten quality of life in the workplace. I remember my grandfather working for a company that invested in nice furniture, art, painted walls, and even a daycare to make their employees lives better. People tended to stay there a very long time.

      Every company I’ve worked for has been a grey hellhole with cubes as far as the eye can see and anti-decoration policies for your individual space. It’s a little better now with WFH, but the office remains a grim cave that nobody wants to visit.

      Maybe if they used a little more carrot and a little less stick, they’d get better results.

        • WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          9 months ago

          Honestly, it isn’t as good as it sounds. They are very small and it is very isolating, plus they all are designed to allow bosses to sneak up behind you without warning. I’ve been severely startled multiple times, which is an embarrassing reaction for the workplace.

          Plus, all the cube walls are magnets for dust, so it can be hard to breathe in there sometimes.