IBM pushed out 20,000 workers over 40 (ethical, lawyers, Brown, retirements)
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IT workers are like cars, value depreciates fast.
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Tech giant IBM adopted hiring practices that favored younger workers and overseas talent while systematically firing, laying off or forcing the retirement of as many as 20,000 employees over 40, ProPublica and Mother Jones reported last week.
No, you must be wrong ,trump is bring jobs,he said so.....trump, jobs....he said....so.
Quote from the article.....
"In the past five years, the investigation found more than 20,000 IBM workers — about 60 percent of its estimated total U.S. job cuts in that period — were over the age of 40. IBM, which still employs 400,000 people worldwide, flouted domestic laws and regulations protecting older workers from age discrimination by not providing information on why they were fired, required them to sign away the right to sue IBM and converted job cuts into retirements to avoid public disclosure requirements.
IBM needs to be taken down a few pegs, that's fer sure.
They never were even penalized for helping the Nazis count and track all the Jews...so the odds they will get any consequences for being unethical pieces of crap NOW, when nobody gives two craps about doing the right thing, is miniscule.
But maybe their business will just slowly fall by the wayside as people realize there are better alternatives for meeting various technology requirements.
This is like the worst-kept secret in technology. Anyone who spends 5 minutes researching what it is like to work at IBM will come across a small mountain of complaints, going back 30 years.
IBM, like a lot of corporate firms, can be a good place to work if you manage to climb to a certain management level, like the top 5-10% or so. But they have a reputation of being both a bad place to work, and a risky group to be doing business with unless you have an army of lawyers.
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