If this is strictly about money and not performance/experience, aren't they going to be the primary target?
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Google Older Workers Benefit Protection Act (OWBPA)
There are special protections for workers above 40
If you think age discrimination is happening, ask HR on your layoff call for a distribution of titles of ages of all employees being laid off. They are legally required to provide it to you if above 40
Unfortunately this probably means they're going to lay off a sh-t ton of 39 year olds who tend to be expensive and right around the E5-E6/M2 mark where their comp has basically realistically peaked
yes.
@as Its typical if true. Happens all the time. My wife got laid off a while back, and has the double-whammy of both ageism AND s-xism (much like tech, her career was very male-dominated... probably moreso than tech... imagine an industry where they still have business meetings in strip clubs, if you will). Anyway, ageism is a fact of life, and they have all sorts of ways to fend off such accusations. When they can hire someone at half your salary who is willing to do twice as much work, of course they are going to want to put you out to pasture, and they'll do whatever they need to do to make it legally justifiable.
This is disgraceful if true
@am I am not (yet I feeling it) I too welcome the sweet release of severance
I’m a worker of a certain age, and I welcome the sweet release of severance. Come take me, I beg!
I was laid off last year and I am an older worker. My age definitely had to do with it.
Discrimination much?
Age could be a part of it, but it doesn't necessarily mean older people are out.
If a company wants to be lean, they need experienced, mid-to-high level people who can adapt and leverage modern AI tools, allowing them to more efficient while using their experience and judgement. Its partly why junior people are having such a hard time to find jobs now.
That being said, older employees may have more invested in the company or simply are being paid too much, so the company may want to cut ties for those reasons.
Frankly, I think the major RSU grant that I have coming Feb / March ‘27 makes me more of a target than age. Read when Oracle had mass layoffs they canned people who were set to receive sizable stock payouts in the near future.
Age would be a correlation, not a cause. Most experienced, highly paid people have been employed longer.
@OP when I was laid off the majority of my peers from my organization in the same boat were in their 50s.
I would think they would offer them a VRP as a first step but Comcast never does the right thing