Ageism

Age #1 Form of Discrimination at the Office

Posted by: Anti-Ageism Task Force

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008 — As ever increasing numbers of older workers delay retirement, one might suspect that age discrimination in the workplace has concurrently been on the rise. Now there's proof. Adecco USA’s Workplace Insights survey finds that bias against age is now the number one form of discrimination in the workplace.

The Fortune 500 workforce solution leader’s survey — designed to solicit what American workers think about diversity in the workplace — found that 47 percent personally experienced some form of discrimination at the office, with age discrimination (52%) being at the top of the list.

The complete list of discrimination types cited, with the percentage of people personally experiencing them is:

Age (52%)
Gender (43%)
Race (32%)
Religion (9%)
Disability (7%)

The survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive on behalf of Adecco between June 16 and June 18, 2008 among 2,206 adults ages 18+, of whom, 1,282 are employed full-time and/or part-time. While troubling, the results of the survey are unfortunately not surprising. We'd love to hear your thoughts on the matter. Click here to start or join the conversation.

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Ageism at Adecco

By Unknown on Aug 04 2008 at 12:31 PM

About a month ago I re-activated my application with Adecco in Oklahoma City. I was told by the office manager, Mr. Ronald Stelting, that he couldn't help me and used the excuse from my app two years ago that I won't go over 10 miles to a job under $10.00 an hr. He became very uptight when I told him to change that note if that is the case He claimed all their job assignments are over 10 miles. Now, I see his ad for Adecco for jobs withing 5 miles of my home address. I scored high on all the test. My typing score was 55 WPM.

I suspect he had purged me from the list of people available to work. I have nothing positive to say about the Adecco office in Oklahoma City and especially the office manager. Mr. Stelting was definitely discriminating against me because of my age using the excuse of my limitation of pay and travel. I am very qualified, very mature (71) and very good health, but it doesn't seem to phase Mr. Stelting.

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