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IMO we should replace general corporate trainings (those HR ones, e.g. anti-harassment) with centralized ones, so that we don't have to take it again and again. Those are the most boring, most time consuming things for the first 1-2 week of any new job. The only purpose is for the company to click some checkboxes.

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My employer has us do most of the corporate training annually anyways, so in our case I don't think centralizing would be of much benefit. (There are tweaks, this year mentioning AI a bunch, but for the most part each is exactly the same interactive video thing every year.)

Fortunately they have an accessible mode which turns off all the video and audio so I just click through that, wait the prescribed amount of time while I do something else, and then take the test.

Would be great to have a mode: "Skip a video I already knew everything" :-)

My company kinda does this - it gives you an assessment first. If you pass the test, you can skip the training. I have only seen this the last couple years, but I hope more companies head this direction.

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