I learned that organizations treat employee time taking training videos as an externality with no consequence. That was pretty illuminating.
It’s interesting how places are happy to set up a required training video for an hour that 25k people must take. That’s the equivalent of 12 contractor person years. If I wanted to put out a contract for 25k hours there’s all sorts of reviews and governance around spending $2.5M. But not around having everyone spend an hour.
That and I’ve learned that training videos have to be repeatedly completed even if they are the same exact thing. I have to watch the same exact ethics class every year. It’s the same class. I can’t test out of it, I must sit and watch an unskippable video each year.
I actually think that the first eye tracking no ad skipping tech will be implemented in institutional training videos.
I think you may be missing the point. This is training as “plausible proof that we have compliance in place.”
So if the company gets in trouble they can say, “100% of the employees will get harassment training” or “100% of the employees will get training on insider trading”
Then the second time they get in trouble they say “This was a rogue employee. 100% of our employees are trained. It’s not our fault.”
That people actually change behavior requires a lot more than a training class.
I don’t think me taking the same training 5 years in a row shows any more compliance than me taking it once.
It’s extra effort to figure out who has taken it or not so they just have everyone take it.
I expect that in time, BS courses that show nominal compliance will be shown to be part of a workplace culture of not caring. But I shudder to think what the next form of compliance will be and will likely be much worse than watching a video once a year.
It doesn’t get you compliant. It’s just a matter of the company saying, “Joe who made the mistake took a class in this subject in the past year so it’s his fault, not ours.” And they lose that “he had to know” if it’s been a while since you took the class.
And if they have to give up a half percent of your time for these videos, it’s worth it for them. And usually you parallel process through them anyways.
A company I previously worked for, gave us an overall budget of time costs to the company. Roughly the same size, but we had to cut our training time down for the exact reason you outlined, except it was more of a monetary figure.
It’s interesting how places are happy to set up a required training video for an hour that 25k people must take. That’s the equivalent of 12 contractor person years. If I wanted to put out a contract for 25k hours there’s all sorts of reviews and governance around spending $2.5M. But not around having everyone spend an hour.
That and I’ve learned that training videos have to be repeatedly completed even if they are the same exact thing. I have to watch the same exact ethics class every year. It’s the same class. I can’t test out of it, I must sit and watch an unskippable video each year.
I actually think that the first eye tracking no ad skipping tech will be implemented in institutional training videos.