{"id":12955,"date":"2022-02-14T07:18:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-14T07:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/ibm-wanted-to-correct-seniority-mix-by-firing-older-staff-the-register\/"},"modified":"2022-02-14T07:18:20","modified_gmt":"2022-02-14T07:18:20","slug":"ibm-wanted-to-correct-seniority-mix-by-firing-older-staff-the-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2022\/02\/14\/ibm-wanted-to-correct-seniority-mix-by-firing-older-staff-the-register\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM wanted to correct ‘seniority mix’ by firing older staff \u2022 The Register"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Newly released documents in a lawsuit alleging IBM discriminated against older workers reveal that Big Blue wanted to “correct” its “seniority mix” by weeding out older workers it labelled “dinobabies.”<\/p>\n

A document<\/a> unsealed last Friday in the case file of Lohnn vs International Business Machines discloses evidence gathered by the plaintiff in which a person whose identity is redacted applauds “use of the disparaging term ‘Dinobabies’ to describe older IBM employees, as well as his plan for how to oust them from IBM’s workforce, stating his intent to ‘accelerate change by inviting the dinobabies (new species) to leave’ and make them an Extinct Species’.”<\/p>\n

The document says the plaintiff also has IBM corporate planning documents that discuss IBM’s recruitment plans and detail its workforce composition. That document is described as offering the following detail:<\/p>\n

Other evidence described in the document concerns an IBM plan to ask older workers to relocate or leave, with the expectation staff would choose the latter.<\/p>\n

In 2017 The Register<\/i> reported on a remote office consolidation<\/a> program that made just such a relocate-or-leave offer.<\/p>\n

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