I wonder how many of those 1/3rd were replacing older workers who were RA'd?
"A new kind of tech job. The New York Times reports on the rise of what it calls a new kind of tech job, defined more by skills than a college degree. A number of companies, including International Business Machines Corp. and Microsoft Corp., are finding value in the role, funding tech training programs for the non-degreed and, in many cases, hiring the graduates. 'We need new approaches, or we’re going to leave more and more people behind in our economy,' said Brad Smith, president of Microsoft, tells the NYT. At an IBM West Virginia operations center nearly a third of the new hires working there have not had a four-year college degree."
https://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2017/06/29/the-morning-download-amazon-whole-foods-deal-pressures-grocers-with-new-delivery-prowess/