>>“Changes in our workforce are about skills, not age,” Ed Barbini, a spokesman for IBM said in an emailed statement. If that were the case, they'd be investin

>>“Changes in our workforce are about skills, not age,” Ed Barbini, a spokesman for IBM said in an emailed statement. If that were the case, they'd be investing in retraining, not repeated mass layoffs that focus on older workers. The concept that older workers can't learn is complete nonsense -- some may not learn because of entitled attitude, that's across all ages (no I don't have a study, but I do note the plethora of press commenting on entitled millennials, etc.).