Is tech getting older or less ageist? The answer is complicated

Photo credit: Andrea Piacquadio via Pexels. Article by Matt Asay. TechRepublic – April 7, 2022.

As technology becomes essential for every industry, companies may be coming to value older workers more.

I once worked at an early-stage startup, where one member of the small team (we employed fewer than 10 people) regularly loved to pillory me for being a “grandpa,” asking if I wanted him to get me a wheelchair. I was 37. Small wonder, then, that I regularly worried that I needed to become obscenely rich by the age of 40 so that I could cash out of tech before it cashiered me for the sin of getting older. Now, years later, […]

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