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.

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

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

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

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