IBM has laid off 1 lakh older employees to give them a "cool" and "trendy" look for millennia, according to a lawsuit

San Francisco, in a staggering revelation, an IBM employee said in an ongoing lawsuit for age-based discrimination that the company had laid off 100,000 employees in recent years with the aim of appearing "cool" and "cool". trend "for millennia like Amazon and Google.

According to the Registrar, during the hearing in the case brought by the lawyers on behalf of Jonathan Langley, former IBM representative, Alan Wild, former Vice President of Human Resources, reportedly "That 50,000 to 100,000 Big Blue employees have been fired in the past, five years or more."

Young people have replaced IBM's dedicated staff to look younger, as is the case of several tech giants such as Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Facebook, among others.

Langley, 61, sued IBM last year for "unfairly firing older and more competent staff to replace it with so-called first professional hires."

IBM, 108, said the company did not discriminate against age.

In a statement, IBM said: "The company hires 50,000 employees each year and spends nearly half a billion dollars to train our team.We also receive more than 8,000 job applications every day , the highest rate we have seen so far, so IBM's strategy and direction for the future is of great interest. "

IBM has almost fired one-third of its global workforce while aggressively recruiting in those years.

"Langley was a long-time IBM Hybrid Cloud salesman until he was chosen for a layoff – despite such good performance," the report says.

In his testimony, Wild said IBM wanted prospective hires to consider Big Blue not as an "old fuddy duddy organization" but as "cool and trendy".

"To do this, IBM has undertaken to lay off over the years a large part of its aging workforce," he said.

In March, ProPublica released an investigation that alleged that IBM laid off approximately 20,000 US employees aged 40 or over in the last five years.