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• shados 8y ago
  This. You're a bean counter and you are tasked with making up as much money as possible via layoff, while losing as few people as possible. You possibly don't even know the age of the people on your spreadsheet beyond what you can assume from titles and roles. You go down the list and cut the big numbers in teams with more people than average (likely more juniors that are mentored by the seniors with big numbers next to their name). End result: you "discriminated" against older people. Though really you just discriminated against higher salaries. It will hurt the company but all layoffs do.