Unless you are in a job that requires competence from the start, like surgeon or rocket scientists, most jobs can be learned in the same length of time that it took to get the degree to get that job.
It’s my understanding that degrees and diplomas became required, because it was ruled discriminatory to use IQ tests.
“More DEI crap??”
I think it’s good news. Employers are beginning to realize that colleges are indoctrination centers and a degree doesn’t indicate any level of competence when it comes to the work force.
We had a new EE a few years back get hired who couldn’t use basic test equipment like multimeters and Oscopes. I’m sure the educational standards in non stem areas, like accounting and such, are just as abysmal. Companies can be better off just hiring bright people and training them rather than college students who end up being pains in the butt because of the social brainwashing
My mother was a newspaper reporter for over twenty years starting before WWI. She said she liked to go down and talk to the printers, some with no formal education. She said by-and-large she found them “better read” than her fellow reporters. Autodidacts are often better educated than those with formal education.