Ageism in tech sector? Survey uncovers large age difference
Quentin Hardy on The New York Times Bits column has reported that a survey of tech companies by Payscale shows a very young median age compared with the overall US average age of 42.3 years. In Technology Workers Are Young (Really Young), he said:
Just six of the 32 companies it looked at had a median age greater than 35 years old. Eight of the companies, the study said, had median employee age of 30 or younger. Women were generally less than 30 percent of the workforce, and in fields like semiconductors, represented much less than that...
The company with the oldest workers on the PayScale list, Hewlett-Packard, came in at 41 years.
The other five companies with older workers, in descending order of median age, were IBM Global Services (38 years old), Oracle (38), Nokia (36), Dell (37), and Sony (36).
