Do we know yet what the average age of those who were laid off is? Is it leaning more towards the late-forties and up category or is it all over the place?
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Too early to tell and I have not heard yet but I predict MIC with its age heavy percentage of workers will take a hard hit.
They are required by law to give you the list of ages. How does it look? I have to think the high salaries targeted are high age too.
Austin has a very age skewed population, unlike the other locations.
Did the list they gave you account for that?
They gave us a list of names of all employees’ ages to show that it was not age discrimination.
When they did the 10% layoffs in Austin last year, they said one third of the people were early career, one third mid career, and one third senior.
So they claimed it was "fair".
Unfortunately 90% of the non-manager employees in Austin are in their 20s, so it wasn't proportionate.
Age discrimination is both illegal and almost impossible to prove. As we all know, salary correlated with age, and salary discrimination is -not- illegal.
On top of everything, you worry about the age....gosh so narrow minded. Who cares about the age?
Age discrimination is illegal, so you can be assured that there is a demonstrable distribution in ages of people affected.
I don't think age is really a factor today...