Have a listen to our AustinUp event “Startups After 50” based on our book Next For Me: A Guide To Startups For Dreamers. The discussion happened on May 14, 2020 as we were all in some form of quarantine due to Covid-19. Highlights: There’s a lot of insecurity and stress around employment, now more so […]
Can the way you write be problematic in a multigenerational workplace? I didn’t think so until I read linguist Gretchen McCulloch’s new book, Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language. She makes the case that the internet has changed language significantly. It’s created a divide between those who learned to write in an analog […]
Bay Area Woman Has Had It With Tech Bias From KQED radio “Perspectives”: Silicon Valley tech companies and their workplaces are the envy of the world. But for Pilar Wolfsteller the tech ecosystem has lost its shine. I’m now 49, and I have had three Valley tech jobs in four years, two of which I […]
Diversity and Inclusion initiatives have made some progress with gender, POC, LGBTQ but age remains an elusive and rarely discussed topic of discrimination. Next For Me founder Jeff Tidwell reports on their research “Understanding the 50+ Worker” and how organizations can begin to confront the silent bias of age. Presented at Tech Inclusion on September […]
Maren Thomas Bannon is an investor in female led startup companies. She writes about venture capital on Forbes. Her recent story details the bias of both age and gender in tech companies. The data says ageism starts young in tech There’s no getting past the fact that tech is a young industry. Studies show that age […]
