Name: IBMはいかにして2万人の高年齢労働者を静かに押し出したか (How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:33:40.000Z
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The Empire Strikes Back is playing in theaters.

And International Business
Machines or IBM is the world's dominant

It embodies the American
Dream with a progressive agenda of equal

opportunity and prides itself on a
stable workforce.

see the new IBM personal system - in the
hands of an old master.

handbook in over 40 years, full-time
employees haven't been touched by layoffs.

People are a treasured resource
and are treated like one.

20,000 American employees age 40 and
over in just the past five years.

That's about 60 percent of its estimated US job
cuts during that time.

from valuing its older workforce to
systematically getting rid of them?

Among other things, Apple
introduced the first Macintosh and took

further as new rivals like Google,
Facebook, and Amazon took the lead.

In our world the speed and tempo of modern
living are increasing at an

And as it slipped,
IBM had to deal with something most of

these competitors didn't have: a large
number of experienced and aging

They reacted to new setbacks
with layoffs

ProPublica heard from over 1,400 former IBM employees.

In making staff cuts, IBM has side-stepped

US laws and regulations intended to
protect workers from age discrimination.

In the past, they would get two lists
from IBM. One that had ages of people

staying and another with ages of those
being let go.

On top of that, the company required people

to sign away their rights to sue for age
discrimination in court, in exchange for

By signing the
documents, laid-off employees waived the

They could only
pursue their age cases through

They also have
to do it solo, so they couldn't combine

forces with other workers who may be
claiming similar age discrimination.

Studies show arbitration overwhelmingly
favors employers.

19% of the time, when their
cases are arbitrated versus 36%

of the time when they go to
federal court and 57% in state courts.

IBM has also laid off and fired
some older workers with review

techniques that effectively made their
age a disadvantage.

business unit that was using a point
system to evaluate workers.

points a person got, the more protected
they were from negative changes to

points for being relatively new at a job
level, so those who worked there fewer

years earned more points than long time
IBMers.

The bias against older workers is
evident when you compare the number of

Those with no
points worked there an average of more

Those with higher
points average fifteen years.

But the numbers don't
reflect worker skills.

long-term employees, the ones with lower
points, were rated by the company itself

as "good enough to stay at current job
levels or be promoted",

percentage of younger employees with
high numbers had similar ratings.

They've also converted many layoffs into
retirements, forcing ex-employees to

accept a retirement package or leave
with no benefits.

workers, including older ones who had
worked from home for years, to relocate

to offices potentially thousands of
miles away from their homes.

has said "we are proud of our company and
our employees ability to reinvent

themselves era after era while always
complying with the law."

protection for workers under the law is
eroding.

in age discrimination cases have said
former employees must prove that there

were no factors other than age involved
in their job changes, but companies like

IBM have made it near impossible to
prove that.

And how it handles its older workforce could

encourage other companies to follow suit,
even though a lot of these companies

Here's the thing about aging: it happens to everyone

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