Fired for not embracing social media? Yep. It’s happening in the UK. Britain’s spy agency says it’s firing some “James Bond-generation agents” (read: older) because they’ve “failed to master social networking and other Internet technology.”
Is this just a convenient way around age discrimination lawsuits–or good practice for businesses?
What if associations started doing this? In a culture where, in large part, senior staff members refuse to even acknowledge–let alone master–social networking and new technologies in general, what if adoption became a non-option if you wanted to keep your job?
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