Go find your next role.. that’s one thing you can control in this scheme. Time to go. There’s a place in the market for folks of all ages and disabilities. Focus your energies on finding what’s next and best. Good luck!
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Not to get all legal on you here. But when you fire such a large percentage of people, they don’t really do analysis like what you are referring to.
The reason being; if you are firing so many people, you are not really focused on those things. For example, HR and Marketing departments usually have more women, if you are cutting 95% of them, it is hard to do an analysis.
Firing list are analyzed to make sure there is no apparent bias in the demographics (age, s-x, race, etc.). That doesn’t mean older people are safe, just that the stats line up with the demographic make-up.
Absolutely not. When you fire so many people, you can’t focus on age or gender. At CA, we had an IT group that had 150 people in it; they fired 149, the person retained was in his 50’s. People laid off were anywhere between 24 and late 60’s.
I'm 52 and I'd lie if I said I wasn't stressing over it.