Thread regarding Intel Corp. layoffs

if yall don't retire, how are we youngsters going to earn more doing less and buy starbucks everyday while paying for the 100sqft room we rent from you?

This matches well with the news that every employee has a future value score computed by data analysis. Finding people to kick out is as easy as running a quick sort. It may not be your turn yet but as the article said “everyone has a bullet with his name on it”.

and since all the new hires have fecal colored skin, the entire company might as well relocate to bangalore

Intel is absolutely performing age discrimination. Within HR, there is a blindness, most HR employees don't want to confront the elephant in the room, but when you are constantly firing older, experienced employees while simultaneously hiring young college graduates, this, folks, is age discrimination. It is happening blatantly for the past few years. There was a time Intel respectfully paused hiring while managing headcount. Now, it is blatant, and why not, the EEOC hasn't hit the pocket books. They do it, get away with it, so they do it a bit more, and seem to get away with it. We need the EEOC to make an example out of Intel so that the company treats employees over 50 ethically. But in the meantime, the layoffs continue, and the hiring machine continues...

@ipu I'm pretty sure such a program actually was created at Intel in the last few years, although I don't remember the name of it.

Its too bad the HR geniuses havent found a more humane way to deal wiith this.

Why not create lower pay positions to allow Tech workers to remain employed and contribute to the company?

Why not allow for Part Time employment at a certain point? Thereby reducing the so called financial burden of older tech employee.

There is a way to sue companies for this. Even for an at will employer, there are exceptions that are recognized by courts. For example, you could sue for breach of good faith and fair dealings, if you can show that the company fabricated a reason to fire you so they could replace you with a younger cheaper person.

One thing and ONLY THING Intel is ahead of any other tech company is age discrimination layoffs. Intel has been doing all of above since past few years - SET, ACT and most recently these silent layoffs..

Clever!! Must be designed by a HR Clerk Turned Into Principal Engineer!

Among ProPublica’s findings, IBM:

• Denied older workers information the law says they need in order to decide whether they’ve been victims of age bias, and required them to sign away the right to go to court or join with others to seek redress.

• Targeted people for layoffs and firings with techniques that tilted against older workers, even when the company rated them high performers. In some instances, the money saved from the departures went toward hiring young replacements.

• Converted job cuts into retirements and took steps to boost resignations and firings. The moves reduced the number of employees counted as layoffs, where high numbers can trigger public disclosure requirements.

• Encouraged employees targeted for layoff to apply for other IBM positions, while quietly advising managers not to hire them and requiring many of the workers to train their replacements.

• Told some older employees being laid off that their skills were out of date, but then brought them back as contract workers, often for the same work at lower pay and fewer benefits.