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Re:IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Tho... by adrianN on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @03:31AM (#18013265)
If you have a thousand people assembling doodads and the demand falls by 50% you eventually need to get rid of 50% of the doodad manufacturers. How do you choose who to fire?
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Re:IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Tho... by gaius on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @05:19AM (#18013710)
Usually companies do that by closing an entire factory and/or shifting production offshore. The performance of any individual at a location that is closing is irrelevant to the decision makers.
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Re:IBM Is Being Sued for Age Discrimination After Firing Tho... by Soundest on Tuesday September 18, 2018 @04:59PM (#18019075)
Under Intel both happened, sites were shut with people relocated to the main hubs (Portland in the US, Poland in Europe, somewhere in India too) and anyone with 'bad' (less than the median grade) were laid off too.
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