Hi everybody, Cheryl Ackison here. Welcome to another edition of Full Measure After

Hours. Today, an interesting look at a giant lawsuit against IBM after the company reduced

its workforce of thousands of older workers. A really interesting discussion today, probably

for a lot of you, particularly with our aging population and the aging workforce, we all

know that people are staying at work longer than they used to, longer than perhaps our parents

and grandparents did. Today, more older people are staying in the labor force and working

longer than they ever have before, studies show that. And part of it is because they are

physically able to, I think we all know people who are in their 60s and 70s even today,

who seem younger in some ways than people we knew decades ago who were in their 50s.

That's just the way it is for some people. Also, people are partly staying in the workforce

longer because they have to for financial reasons. They don't have the financial ability

to stop work and retire because they don't have a way to basically make a living or pay

for themselves. So, for that combination of reasons, people are staying in the workforce

longer. Another reason was given to me by an expert, he said, that a lot of jobs today

involve technological or thinking functions that don't have to do with strength or physical

ability. So, some people can stand the workforce longer because it doesn't have anything to

do with them having to have physical stamina or strain themselves so they can perform those

jobs well into their 60s and beyond. But at the same time, there's the one dynamic of

people staying in the workforce longer. There's sort of a competing dynamic with some employees

trying to push them out. And that's the topic of my cover story this week. It'll be on Sunday,

April 11th. There is the tech giant IBM being accused of a mass undertaking to replace thousands

of older employees with what executives there called new collar workers. We'll talk about that

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