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Feb. 12, 2022, 3:04 AM

IBM Emails Show Millennial Workers Favored Over ‘Dinobabies’ (1)

Josh Eidelson
Josh Eidelson
Bloomberg News

IBM executives discussed in emails how to force out older workers and derided them as “Dinobabies” who should be made an “Extinct species,” according to a court filing in an age discrimination case against the company.

The communications show “highly incriminating animus” against older employees by officials who at the time were in the company’s “highest ranks,” according to the filing Friday.

The partially redacted filing says the emails surfaced in separate arbitration proceedings but it doesn’t reveal the identities of the company officials or indicate when they were speaking. A judge has ordered the release of versions of the ...

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