{"id":1029673,"date":"2026-08-19T08:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T02:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1029673"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T03:53:14","slug":"ageism-in-the-age-of-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/19\/ageism-in-the-age-of-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Ageism in the age of AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Across tech, consulting, BFSI, and even family-run conglomerates that once treated employees like extended relatives, mid-career professionals are being \u201crestructured,\u201d \u201crepurposed,\u201d or \u201cright-sized.\u201d These are elegant words for a simple reality: too senior, too expensive, too yesterday. Older workers report feeling \u201cdiscarded like used tissue\u201d. In India, employers admit preferring under-35 hires for their \u201cenergy\u201d and \u201cadaptability\u201d, that is lower salary expectations and a tolerance for 11 pm official messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across tech, consulting, BFSI, and even family-run conglomerates that once treated employees like extended relatives, mid-career professionals are being \u201crestructured,\u201d \u201crepurposed,\u201d or \u201cright-sized.\u201d These are elegant words for a simple reality: too senior, too expensive, too yesterday. Older workers report feeling \u201cdiscarded like used tissue\u201d. In India, employers admit preferring under-35 hires for their \u201cenergy\u201d and \u201cadaptability\u201d, that is lower salary expectations and a tolerance for 11 pm official messages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1029673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1029673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1029693,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1029673\/revisions\/1029693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1029673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1029673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1029673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}