IBM purged ‘gray hairs’ and ‘old heads’ as it launched Millennial Corps: lawsuit

One in-house presentation showed that this posture meant doubling the proportion of workers receiving negative performance evaluations, so 3,000 employees could be laid off and replaced with “early professionals,” according to the suit. The suit took aim at a 2006 IBM internal report on employee demographics that purportedly called older workers “gray hairs” and “old heads,” and concluded that younger workers were “generally much more innovative and receptive to technology than baby boomers.” The suit draws heavily from results of a ProPublica investigation published in September that said IBM appeared to be winding down the Millennial Corps, cited in several legal actions as evidence the firm was biased against younger workers.

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