IT Workers Facing Layoffs Jolted By CEO's Message (computerworld.com)

HCSC recently announced layoffs for more than 500 IT workers, and expects them to train their replacements from an India-based contractor. But a few days earlier, CEO Paula Steiner said, "As full-time retiring baby boomers move on to their next chapter, the makeup of our organization will consist more of young and non-traditional workers, such as part-time workers or contractors." dcblogs quotes ComputerWorld: What Steiner didn't say in the employee broadcast is that some of the baby boomers moving "on to the next chapter" are being pushed out the door. "Obviously not all of us are 'retiring' -- a bunch of us are being thrown under the bus," said one older employee.
The insurance provider argues that its members want easier technology solutions that "help keep rising costs in check. Our IT teams are being transformed...focusing on those and other member needs." But Slashdot reader ErichTheRed writes: Having a CEO actually say in public that their company wants to engage in age discrimination and eliminate full-time employment, rather than just carry out the work in secret, is new to me... for those mid- to late-career technical folks, how have you managed to adjust to new realities like this?

Comments

Don't worry guys...

[Mashiki]

Those H1B's are just there to "temporarily" fill a lack of skilled workers.

Re:Don't worry guys...

[Anonymous Coward]

A 200,000/year H-1B quota is why the tech companies have been writing checks to the Clinton Foundation.

Heh, but Trump even outsourced his wife

Re:As the next US president said.......

[Calydor]

Wait, are you putting sound bites in CONTEXT? That's not how mindless outrage works!