Comment Re:Backwards (Score 1) 67
This is why there's value in having a mix of experience levels in the organization. People who know how stuff works, and people who aren't limited by prior assumptions. Complementary.
Certain well-known companies practice explicit age discrimination by proximity policy. Who's going to live in a van in the parking lot in Palo Alto? 23 year old single males. Who isn't? People with famlies and mortgages and lives.
Similarly by demanding in-office work they're quite deliberately discriminating against people with things that complicate the 80 hour work week, including disability and family.