You hear it all the time. Employers only want to hire young, single people fresh out of college so that they don’t have to pay high salaries and medical benefits for full families.
That was why a write-in answer to Promo’s 2007 Compensation Study (see page 28) took us by surprise and makes a convincing case for reverse age discrimination, at one company at least.
In response to asking what the most pressing career issue facing him or her, an anonymous survey respondent wrote:
“Finding young people who actually want to learn anything or even work. They have no concept of what work is, and have no intention of ever finding out. All our existing staff is over 50, and our company is more productive without our former younger employees. We will not hire anyone under 30!”
Hope our HR department doesn’t think that way.
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