IBM and Oldsters
March 29, 2019
I can hear the question posed to IBM Watson now, “Watson, is it okay to fire older employees in order the make room for younger, less expensive workers?”
I even can anticipate the IBM Watson answer, “Yes.”
IBM Watson is smart software, but it does not do as well providing human resource outputs as it does with generating recipes which require tamarind.
How do I know?
I read “IBM Sued By Former Employees For Alleged Illegal Firing.” I learned from the article:
IBM is being sued by a group of its former employees for allegedly laying them off for their age.
The write up added what seems obvious to a human like me but probably a nuance unnoticed by IBM’s Watson:
The lawyers of the complainants added that their main case against IBM would be a major age-discrimination lawsuit. They said that top executives of the company “took the calculated risk of openly breaking the law” in order to cover up substantial, targeted layoffs of its older workers.
IBM Watson may need a bit more training, particularly information related to employment laws and regulations.
Stephen E Arnold, March 29, 2019
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