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Ground Report | New Delhi: IBM emails dinobabies; IBM executives have mentioned in emails methods to drive out older employees and derided them as "Dinobabies" who are to be turned into an "extinct species", according to a court filing submitted in a case of age discrimination against the company.
The communications show "highly incriminating animosity" against older employees from officials who at the time were in the "highest ranks" of the company, according to Friday's filing.
In one email chain, an International Business Machines Corp. official described a plan to “accelerate change by inviting the ‘dinobabies’ (new species) to leave" and turn them into an “Extinct species," according to the filing. Company officials also complained about IBM’s “dated maternal workforce" that “must change," and discussed frustration that IBM had a much lower share of millennials in its workforce than a competitor, but said its share would increase following layoffs, according to the filing.
An IBM spokesperson said in a comment that the company has never engaged in systematic age discrimination and has terminated employees due to converting industry provisions, and no longer because of their age. In 2020, the median age of IBM employees in the United States Staff was 48, the same as in 2010, according to the note.
The spokesperson also mentioned that the language quoted in the emails "is not consistent with the glory that IBM has for its people and because the information is obviously displayed, it no longer replicates IBM practices. 'business or insurance policies'.
The company is facing age-based claims in arbitrations and legal proceedings by former employees across the country. A former IBM vice president of human resources said in a court deposition in one of the cases that the company was facing talent recruiting issues and determined that one way to show the generation Y that IBM wasn't "an old fuddy-duddy organization" was to make itself appear "like cool, hip organization."
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