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Comment What's got silicon.com readers reaching for their keyboards this week? Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Young vs old… Thousands of tech newbies needed to plug skills gap
[31 Jan 2008]
News Ageism has not only contributed to the UK's IT skills crisis, say readers of silicon.com, but is "rife" in the tech industry. We need to actively stamp out ageism in both of these areas (and I do promise you it is rife).
[21 Aug 2007]
Comment Ageism in IT is much like other kinds of prejudice, says Martin Brampton - most of what we assume is untrue. One strategy for combating ageism is to have older IT workers deal with legacy systems, of which there are plenty.
[22 May 2007]
News The increased use of offshore IT, ageism and the 'geeky' image of the technology industry are to blame for the lack of skilled UK tech staff, according to comments posted by silicon.com readers. The issue of ageism concerned some with the...
[11 May 2007]
News In 2006, Intellect warned against ageism in the IT industry, claiming both younger and older people entering the industry are facing discrimination. Intellect, the trade association for the IT and telecoms industries, has launched a social network...
[26 Apr 2007]
News The intention of new employment laws which aim to eliminate ageism in the workplace is laudable, say silicon.com readers, however they question how effective the laws will be. Take our latest two-second poll and tell us whether you think the new...
[29 Sep 2006]
News Beatrice Rogers, senior programme manager for the knowledge economy at Intellect, said ageism is not endemic across the IT industry but that it is an issue. She told silicon.com: "It is ageism against young people coming into the industry and...
[14 Sep 2006]
Leader How much of a problem is ageism in IT? We want to know what you - our readers and members of the IT workforce - think of the new anti-ageism legislation and ageism in IT in general. Over the past few years we've heard quite a lot from silicon.com...
[11 Sep 2006]
Leader Before trying to reach out to silver surfers, perhaps the IT industry should deal with its own ageism issues first. The UK is lagging far behind the US in terms of the number of older people using the internet, according to Intel chairman Craig...
[09 Mar 2006]
News A fifth of respondents said ageism is rife across companies and the fact many of tech's bright sparks are in the mid-twenties to mid-thirties means they are often overlooked. IT managers in the UK are being bugged by a lack of clear guidance from...
[12 Dec 2005]
News Recruiters are largely to blame for perpetrating ageism in the IT industry, according to a recent poll of silicon.com readers. Readers voted for recruiters 2-to-1 over employers as the party responsible for ageism, with 65 per cent of respondents...
[01 Nov 2005]
News Short-sighted recruitment consultants are to blame for much of the ageism that plagues the IT industry, according to the comments of silicon.com readers. I do feel that the real problem to ageism in IT though is recruitment consultants who are very...
[26 Oct 2005]
News Changes to discrimination laws and a skills shortage will force employers to tackle the problem of ageism in IT, according to a leading industry recruitment body. But Swain argued that the ageism currently evident in the IT industry - as seen from...
[21 Feb 2005]
Comment Anecdotally, this is certainly the case for some people with IT skills, who have been marginalised for a variety of reasons including ageism. While everyone loves a raise, Martin Brampton says a pay increase is not enough to satisfy workers.
[07 Sep 2004]
News Individuals and employers are proving ageism in the workplace can be overcome, though IT still has a ways to go to catch up with other industries in this area. Wick described ageism as "bad for individuals, bad for business and bad for the economy".
[23 Jun 2004]
Comment In conjunction with silicon.com's ageism in IT campaign, Jackie Luesby, a solicitor with Morgan Cole, looks at what to expect from the upcoming age discrimination legislation in the UK - and how employers should start preparing.
[21 Jun 2004]
Comment Ageism in IT, as we're learning from our ongoing campaign, is no simple matter. A 65-year-old tech writer from the US who's employed at a large software company says: "Yes, there's ageism, but don't give up.
[14 Jun 2004]
Comment Editor's note: See our full coverage of ageism in IT. Have you been affected by ageism in the tech industry? Yet many fall at the first hurdle in the application process - not because they don't have the right skills or abilities but simply because...
[10 Jun 2004]
Leader As many readers will have noticed, silicon.com is undertaking a campaign against ageism in IT. A significant portion of this has been soliciting reader feedback on personal experiences with ageism. One question we've been asking is whether ageism...
[01 Jun 2004]
Comment silicon.com's campaign against ageism in IT has elicited quite a bit of reader feedback. While some sided with our CIO Jury, saying age discrimination isn't a problem, the majority of respondents gave accounts of personal experience of ageism.
[28 May 2004]
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