The title is a tad bit misleading. The article itself states that there is no smoking gun but a lot of anecdotal indicates that IBM is targeting older workers.

The title is a tad bit misleading. The article itself states that there is no smoking gun but a lot of anecdotal indicates that IBM is targeting older workers. So nothing was confirmed. But it is an industry-wide open secret that tech firms want to get rid of their older workers and replace them with younger workers or possibly offshore the position. Startup scene is outright hostile towards older tech workers where the vast majority of the work force is in their 20s. I don't see this getting any better. IBM is a special case because they have been suffering during this tech/economic boom we are in right now. So they have been laying off lots of people while most of the tech world has been hiring. I think many corporations are waiting for a recession to provide them an excuse to "trim" their tech workforce and I suspect most of that "trimming" will be done at the older end.