When It Comes to Age Bias, Tech Companies Don’t Even Bother to Lie
5th April 2016
Imagine you’re African-American and working at a 500-person technology company where everyone else is white, and one day the CEO declares in a national newspaper interview that his company’s lack of diversity isn’t an accident. In fact he prefers to hire white people because when it comes to technology white people simply make better employees.
That statement would be unthinkable. But what if a tech CEO made the same comment about age?
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I suspect the truth is that tech startups prefer young workers because they will work longer hours and can be paid less.
Got it in one.