What We’re Reading: December 19, 2017

These are the day’s top talent stories from around the web.

Employers increasingly rely on custom courses over college educations to teach their talent pool, writes Wired.

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The current tax bill proposal would remove the ability for companies to write off transit benefits on their taxes, reports Chicago Tribune.

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In other tax news, tuition waivers will not be taxed, as previously proposed, writes NPR.

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In order to better understand Bitcoin, one Japanese company will begin paying some of its employees in the virtual currency, writes The Guardian.

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Finally, here’s how CEOs handled 2017’s crazy news cycle, via Fast Company.