#workload

For those who were laid off — especially in Medicare/Medicaid Member Services (Community & State):

Looking back now, what were the real signs you were about to be laid off?

Not rumors. Not assumptions.
Actual changes you noticed in hindsight — workload shifts, meetings, metrics, access changes, team restructuring, communication patterns, etc.

I’m not asking to stir fear or spread speculation. I’m asking so those of us still here can be informed, prepared, and realistic.

If you’re willing to share, I’d appreciate it. Facts matter.

No point of layoffs if they replace with new people. So they won’t. They are going to try to reduce costs if they laid off people. Some people think that they be safe if they survive layoffs. So they keep asking on this site “are there any layoffs?” and participate in rumors about it. Even though you don’t get a layoff, your workload will increase. Believe me all this types of conversations and any decisions will just make the company sink.

6 years at Wayfair and Im honestly ready to quit they have me working a closing schedule with split days off. I have a family to take care of and this feels like a kick in the teeth.

I feel a mass exodus from my location. Nobody likes a layoff obviously but the workload had tripled for some as myself. Yes, the stock went up but at what cost. Fire all those people just to hire them back as contractors and paying them more! Should've spent a little time weeding out the ones not performing and those not doing their work from home! Just the lazy one working from the house could've made up for the 15K.

Did you know that any workflow sent to ENGINE has to be run in parallel/duplicated for 6 months to 1 year by the team offloading it? Meaning for most of 2026, any ENGINE success will likely be due to their USA counterparts. It’s a hilarious sad irony that any work sent there will be 100% redundant (so efficient!!!), and meanwhile we have to manage the same workload as a year ago with 30% fewer people. Everything you hear about ENGINE over the next year + will be utter propaganda.

I usually go home around 2pm to avoid traffic and continue working between 2:30 to 6:30. Now I have to stay until 5pm and feel stressed out due to the heavy traffic. Since I stayed until 5pm, no more work at home.

My working hour is less than before after the 8 hours rule is enforced.

stock is at $58, at what point do people realize extra effort is required to dig out of this. even 1 weekend a month would be a huge help to turn this thing around. let's go !!!!

If you take on 50 tasks and do 49 of them exceedingly well but do a so-so job on the 50th one, that is what you get judged on.
Better to take on limited tasks but do very well on all of them. If you think you might fail on a task, best to pass that on to someone else.

I'm so tired from doing too much work for no reward that I'd see being cut as a blessing. Bring it on, I say.

Is this a ploy to encourage people to quit? Where are we supposed to sit when we badge in a building but not at our center of gravity?

Been a madhouse in the building I'm in since yesterday with these cube claims.

I have been severely overwhelmed at work the last 2 years. Drowning in legal issues and compliance stuff and roughly 2 x the workload of next coworker...I got an inconsistently meets this year after pushing back on workload and other things...I don't think they would fire me as who would deal with it but anyone else having that issue? How can I continue to do it and not get paid enough or have any trust with management?

I've attended a few Leadership update calls since Dan announced results and I've heard the phrase 'find another gear' or similar used a few times now.

Do any of you have another gear to go upto? I don't know about y'all but since VSP & the last round of RIFs, I've been in top gear constantly covering my work and that of several others, and have nothing more left to give, I'm burnt out.

I guess they expect me to give up even more of my own personal time to help Dan get his payout. It ain't happening!

Cigna just merged dental & mental health. Wow, Sean Carroll is going to be 2x busy for the same pay. Mental Dental, they should just let Dr. Seuss lead cigna at this point.

I’m now being pressured to take on the work of another team that was let go when my own team was recently cut by more than 50%. I already can’t deal with the extra work left by the people who were let go on my team, let alone try to help another team in an area where I have no idea what they do. I feel bad they don’t have the people they need to do the work, but frankly, that’s not my problem and I can’t fix it for them. I’m so tired of these “leaders” laying people off and expecting us to just magically make up for it.

It's been barely manageable as-is for a while now. My team has been gutted several times already, and nobody paid attention or followed up. My manager isn't as bad as some, but you can only do so much with the little you have left.

My team is tired of writing quarterly check- ins and monthly practice reviews. They work hard and spending all this time is getting to them. I had a few just not submit one this quarter despite my weekly reminders. Can’t say I really blame them.

Many nurses and therapists working in Home and Community care have seen their roles change significantly over the past several years, especially since the buy out of naviHealth within care coordination roles - consisting of OTs/PTs/SLPs/RNs. Productivity goals have increased to a point that is unattainable due to increased demands/goals/administrative tasks within paid working hours.

At the same time, raises have failed to keep pace with inflation, effectively reducing real wages despite growing workloads and responsibilities. Raises have fallen well behind inflation, effectively resulting in pay cuts for experienced clinicians who are carrying heavier caseloads and greater responsibility than ever before. For a workforce that is highly trained, licensed, and essential to patient outcomes, this trend is deeply concerning. These challenges are not isolated—they are systemic. Raises are consistently 1-2%, with 2% being a rarity.

These issues are not isolated to individual teams or regions. When issues are systemic, individual advocacy has limits.

This raises an important question: Is it time for nurses and therapists in the Home and Community line of business to unionize? And if so, has anyone considered leading this effort?

I’m in my mid thirties and thought good work would speak for itself. After leadership noticed me, my manager started freezing me out and slowing things down around my work. Things conveniently arrive late or not at all, and I’m left scrambling to explain gaps I didn’t create. It’s draining to walk into work knowing you’ve got to defend yourself before you can even do the job.

I spend half my day in meetings that accomplish nothing, and somehow the rest of the day is supposed to cover actual work. It’s ridiculous how little time is left to get anything done, and it’s exhausting trying to keep up like this. It almost feels like a freaking joke.

What's the point of staying when there's no reward for it? No promotion, no raise, just more work. I'd almost rather get the layoff call at this point and take the money to leave this thankless place behind.

I see a lot of people talk about 50 or 60-plus hours, and it always surprises me because I’ve never worked more than the standard 40. My reviews have always been great, so I’m genuinely confused about the disconnect.

I spent most of my career going all in, staying late, fixing things no one asked me to fix. Lately I’m realizing the extra effort rarely changes outcomes or benefits me all that much, it just burns me out faster. I’m trying to do what’s required, not everything possible, and reminding myself work doesn’t deserve all my energy. In other words, I'm trying to give back exactly as much as I'm getting.

I just want to do my job. Is that really that much to ask for? No wonder the company is failing so spectacularly when everything but the work is a priority.

Those of us who lost half our teams and weren’t absorbed into other groups are about to live a nightmare. They might reduce our workload because they know we physically can’t do it anymore, but I highly doubt it. Get ready to go from overworked to “family, what is that?”

In townhalls, people keep complaining about GPDS. Leadreship talks about GPDS replacement. But GPDS keep getting fatter and keeps adding more non-value work on engineers.

It gets harder every day. They’re milking our fear of losing our jobs for all it's worth. Since the last round of layoffs, the workload has far surpassed what’s left of our capacity. I watch people work themselves into the ground every day, even after we all just witnessed that none of it matters when your number is up.

At this point, I almost envy the people who were let go. Now comes the chaos and the fallout, with even fewer of us left to handle the increasing workload. My team lost two critical roles that, based on past experience, will never be backfilled. The logic here is simple: more money for them, more work for us.

Just got told I have to quote all my channel deals related to my account.

Here is the funny part. No raise. What is this?

Getting anything done here is a nightmare. You need ten approvals for the simplest task. It's not structure, it's a cage that stops you from actually working. I spend more time fighting the system than doing my job.

Why did we allow it to come to this? Why are so many of us so willing to take on work from our laid off teammates to the point where we're constantly overworked but still expected to pick up more - and then we do! How is this our new normal? Nothing will change until we all say enough and just start refusing extra work. Let them deal with the consequences of their actions for once.

If the schools are closed for icy roads why isn’t the bank closing? They don’t care about our safety. Almost spun out completely. Have to come into office for my 3 days though 🤡

We js saw a bunch of people let go, lives done. Now people are escalating for different shifts and crying about the work leftover. Like I get we dont gotta be grateful for keeping jobs and the changes su-k but why fck around? Is that why call centers get slashed and not retail?

I am in my forties and have tried all the usual advice, eating better, walking outside, staying active. None of it touches the exhaustion that comes from constant overwork. At some point it stops feeling personal and starts feeling like the job is designed to drain people no matter how careful they are.

It really makes me mad that you have some PepsiCo employees who work really hard, get no recognition and/or they get laid off. Then you have those PepsiCo employees who are constantly on their cell phones, Facebook, etc. Get off your phones/Facebook people!! You’re being paid to do a job not to express your political opinions, etc., during work hours!!!

No overtime for RTM positions. Just so you know the company is going to fully expect you to work 50-60 hours to complete the job but only pay you 40. Dont fall for the trap. Take the severance if you can.

I noticed that Beauty Merchandisers (previously listed as Cosmetic Stock Associates) used to be full-time, but this week I saw several new Cosmetics Merchandising Associate positions posted as part-time. Are there still full-time beauty merchandisers in stores, or were those roles converted to part-time? Or are these new part-time positions meant to support the full-time staff? Given the responsibility associated with that role compared to the pay. Their compensations should align more with that of a visual captain.

I'm so done with this cr-p. I was given three people's work with impossible deadlines. Before, I might have tried to make it work, but I'm not ki-ling myself over it anymore. From this point on, it'll be done when it's done. They can hire help or let me go, I don't care.

How did Rush go for everyone?
Not the best for us.