IBM would have fired 100,000 people for a more modern look ELESPECTADOR.COM

The tech company is facing several lawsuits that have accused it of firing older workers, including a clbad action lawsuit in Manhattan and individual civil suits filed in California, Pennsylvania and Texas last year.

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"We have reinvented IBM over the last five years to focus on more exciting opportunities for our customers," IBM said in a statement. "The company hires 50,000 employees a year."

The company, also known as Big Blue, has seen a decline in revenue for nearly seven consecutive years. Over the last ten years, the company has laid off thousands of people in the United States, Canada and other jurisdictions where wages are high. to reduce costs and reorganize its workforce after falling behind the revolutions of cloud computing and mobile technology. The number of IBM employees has fallen to its lowest level in six years, with 350,600 employees worldwide by the end of 2018, a 19% reduction from 2013.

In a civil statement, Alan Wild, former vice president of human resources, said IBM had "fired between 50,000 and 100,000 employees in recent years," according to a court document filed Tuesday in Texas.

In his statement, Mr. Wild said that IBM, 108, had problems recruiting talent and had determined that a way to show millennia that IBM was not an organization to the old it was to present itself as a "modern" organization like Google and Amazon, According to the document. According to court documents, IBM has decided to separate from a large part of its workforce through continuous layoffs over several years.

This strategy was deliberately targeting older workers, such as the plaintiff, Jonathan Langley, 61, a Texas-based lawyer who accused IBM of firing him. after more than 24 years because of his age, according to the document. IBM filed a motion to dismiss the Langley lawsuit. On Tuesday, his lawyers opposed this request.

Wild had been working at IBM for almost eight years and had quit last October, according to his LinkedIn page. Wild said that he could not comment on the subject.

IBM started working to "correct [su] composition of older workers "in 2014, according to the clbad action lawsuit filed in New York.The company began firing older workers and replacing them with Generation Y, which, according to IBM's consulting department," in generally they are much more innovative and technology-friendly than baby boomers. "

Last month, IBM, based in Armonk, New York, eliminated some 2,000 employees. "We continue to reposition our team to align with the high value-added segments of the IT market, while focusing heavily on new critical areas that add value to our IBM customers," the company said in a statement.