OWBPA summary

Here are the totals by age from the OWBPA summary provided to me last week. Note that the OWBPA summary is listed by organization/decider/jobTitle/age, so these are aggregates. Presumably, only job titles for which layoffs occurred were included, otherwise the not_selected number would have been larger.

age not_selected selected percentage
20 1 0 0%
21 3 0 0%
22 20 6 23%
23 117 39 25%
24 138 41 23%
25 147 49 25%
26 174 52 23%
27 201 51 20%
28 212 48 18%
29 225 52 19%
30 220 71 24%
31 270 90 25%
32 276 77 22%
33 275 94 25%
34 346 114 25%
35 339 114 25%
36 333 102 23%
37 322 99 24%
38 311 99 24%
39 371 103 22%
40 377 115 23%
41 354 93 21%
42 343 99 22%
43 325 93 22%
44 323 94 23%
45 322 95 23%
46 340 102 23%
47 334 96 22%
48 306 100 25%
49 302 120 28%
50 300 122 29%
51 295 108 27%
52 295 94 24%
53 272 104 28%
54 243 109 31%
55 221 87 28%
56 210 83 28%
57 155 61 28%
58 157 73 32%
59 168 69 29%
60 126 62 33%
61 126 57 31%
62 83 52 39%
63 78 52 40%
64 60 31 34%
65 46 37 45%
66 32 25 44%
67 20 15 43%
68 12 10 45%
69 18 7 28%
70 7 9 56%
71 4 10 71%
72 4 5 56%
73 1 1 50%
74 1 0 0%
75 2 2 50%
76 1 0 0%
77 2 0 0%
Total 10566 3593 25%

I Googled for the actual OWBPA report online, but couldn't find it. I'm reluctant to post less they can trace it back to me.

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The actual layoff numbers a few months later are further skewed by the practice of finding a job for the “hand picked” buddy who was caught in the layoff. Having seen this many times at VMware, those buddies are usually in those younger, cheaper demographics. It’s happening now even if this isn’t usually a Broadcom habit.

"What I get out of this: if you are over 50 and get the offer, there is a high chance you won’t last long enuf to much of your RSU to vest."

That's correct. It's a common practice in Silicon Valley to cut older employees. Officially, age discrimination is illegal, but companies that terminate based on age are rarely prosecuted. Employers save cash flow by regularly culling the high-cost baby boomers.

The Valley is full of tech employees who never got the chance to claim deferred RSUs.

OWBPA = Older Workers Benefits Protection Act. This basically prohibits employers from discriminating against workers 40yrs and over on the grounds of age. American but there is something similar in the EU (Article 21 I believe).

Even if traced back to OP, there are whistleblower protections in place.

we have 70 years old's in the business????

I had to Google OWBPA

What I get out of this: if you are over 50 and get the offer, there is a high chance you won’t last long enuf to much of your RSU to vest.

Does this mean people over the age of 40 should have been given 45 days instead of 3 days to decline the FTE offer from Broadcom to be eligible for severance per the OWBPA?

Here's the breakdown by age decade. Not sure if this is sufficient for an age discrimination claim.

20s 1238 338 21%
30s 3063 963 24%
40s 3326 1007 23%
50s 2316 910 28%
60s 601 348 37%
70s 22 27 55%

Explanation: older the employee cohort was the more they got laid off.

Over 50 very risky, over 60 extremely risky. Clear age proportioned selection.

For example, there were 295 51 year olds who were not "severed" and 108 who were for the organizations/event in scope, or 27% of that population. Overall, there were 3593 people "severed" from the company.

Anyone care to explain to a poor stupid low IQ guy like me what this means?

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