Would you apply for a job which requires you to be “dynamic” or a “digital native”? If you’re over 40, it might not be worth bothering. Until recently, it looked as though Generation X had never had it so good. But age discrimination is alive and well — and the exodus of older workers in the pandemic may be more of a Great Clear-Out than a Great Resignation. As the diversity and inclusion agenda spawns a million training courses and reports into race and gender, age remains taboo. Amazon has agreed to audit its racial diversity, under pressure from shareholders, following similar moves at Apple and JPMorgan. But discrimination against older workers rarely features. Even though Google and other companies have been successfully sued for it, a 2020 survey of global employers revealed that most do not include age in their diversity and inclusion policies.
你會申請一份要求你“富有干勁”或者“自幼就熟悉信息技術”的工作嗎？如果你已經(jīng)過了40歲，這可能就不值得你費心了。直到最近，X一代看似從來沒有過這么好的生活。但年齡歧視仍然存在，而且還很嚴重。疫情當前，年長員工大批離職可能更像是一場“大清理”，而不是一場“大辭職”。