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This week’s Future of Work newsletter highlights efforts by Cisco to improve skills-based hiring , a Texas judge’s decision to block the overtime threshold increase and more.This is the published version of Forbes' Future of Work newsletter, which offers the latest news for chief human resources officers and other talent managers on disruptive technologies, managing the workforce and trends in the remote work debate.
Silicon Valley immigration attorneys are fielding hundreds of inquiries from existing and potential clients, many from tech workers worried about their H-1B visas, which are granted to highly-skilled foreign-born workers, All of which makes companies that can show real progress worth a look. Cisco, the tech infrastructure giant, reports that 30% of its “emerging talent” jobs were filled by people who don’t have degrees in 2023. Meanwhile, 42% of its business units hired employees without a bachelor’s degree.“The uniqueness, I think, of what did is they did this more intentionally than I’ve seen others do,” says Debbie Dyson, CEO of OneTen.
Then, because retention has been strong—some 96% of OneTen hires were still on board a year later, and promotion levels are at or above the general employee population— “you get a comfortableness with it from leaders who have done it,” Jones says. “You don’t have to continue to centrally fund it because they’ve seen that it works.”
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