Could be both.
The High School “diploma” today is equal to a 6th Grade “graduation” certificate a few decades back.
Companies are going to be hiring complete ignoramuses who cannot read, write or cipher (channeling Jethro).
I wonder why they are doing this. Hmmm...it’s a mystery.
My worthless associates degree lives!!!
Fixed.
Wise move. Today, a BA issued by most US universities means you’ve been indoctrinated for 4 years by the communist faculty.
Today’s BA grads are less educated than yesterday’s high school dropouts so why care about a diploma?
Been saying it for years...we need more apprentice programs and/or trade schools.
Too many kids coming out of college are utterly unprepared for the workplace. Worse the indoctrination baggage = employees who cause constant trouble over contrived nonsense. Who wants employees who come crying every time they hear something they don’t like?
We don’t need any steenkin employees with STEM degrees cause we got AI software.
I guess corporations now have lawyers that have figured a way around Griggs vs Duke Power.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Griggs_v._Duke_Power_Co.
Why did it take so long?
A report published by the Burning Glass institute last year described the growing trend of cutting degrees as a requirement as 'an essential step in reducing inequity in the American labor market.'
Seems part of the motive is that blacks are less likely to have a college degree, so some companies are replacing B.A. requirements with how one contributes to a company's diversity.
45% Of US companies switch to McDonalds hiring plan if they are warm hire them.
If they drop the degree requirement, they can use aptitude testing for job applicants.
There a plenty of non university educational opportunities that make non degreed applicants a superior new hire option.
In todays work world job skills trump paper credentials
Once upon a time, corporate HR Depts would pull a credit check on new applicants — thought being, if their credit was poor or messed up, that they’d be likely to be distracted and poor employees, or they’d even be motivated to embezzle or even steal from the company. The chains of large student loans might figure into this idea.
I don’t know what curent HR practice is...
My high school diploma is far above ANY damn college degree today!!
More women than men graduating from colleges.
Lots of those women are getting degrees in ‘grievance studies’... Plus colleges are teaching ‘hate American - hate capitalism - love Marxism - be a sexual weirdo...
This might be a smart move on the part of American companies.
College degrees were preventing them from meeting their quotas
Good. The bachelor requirement in most places is dumb. The community college my wife works at tried to put that in place for almost all jobs. Which was laughably silly, an institute that only hands out associates degrees demanding their secretaries have bachelors. Pretty much the only thing a bachelors proves is that you can stick to a track for 4 years. Of course in this modern world where you’ve got a better than 50% chance of getting laid off in less than 4 years that’s kind of a silly thing to care about.
I work in IT so certifications often mean more than a BS. Now seeing the certification trend reaching into other professions.
Accenture? The arrogant Arthur Andersen snob club that would come on campus as part of the Big 8 and sneer at the mere mortals who dared approach their recruiting table is doing away with degree requirements? Say it ain’t so!