You have one piece of honest feedback or advice for upper management at Optum that you didn’t feel comfortable including in your EXI survey because who knows how anonymous those really are, and go:

https://www.beckerspayer.com/executive-moves/unitedhealth-group-taps-ai-chief/

They’re all terrible enterprises that only care about the bottom line, no matter the cost to clients or employees. But Optum has been, hands down, the most exhausting, mentally, physically, and emotionally. The mix of daily toxicity and uncertainty... — read more 

Minnesota is no longer the state it was. Watch the documentary “A precarious state MN” on YouTube. Why not move corporate headquarters out of Minnesota to a more tax friendly state? Save on corporate taxes, vs laying off workers . Employee... — read more 

My understanding of the RTO is that there is a signup to reserve an office/cubicle and it's based on availability. The cubicle can be reserved for up to 30 days. Obviously this is not a long term situation and would create quite a bit of work for... — read more 

What info does anyone have regarding RIFs in the upcoming months?

Nice to see some sleep token fans here who learned a new word. When do we start protesting??

Those of you saying it is awful and filthy please snap pictures of it there are a lot of us documenting what the company is doing, their failed business practices, wanting to offshore American healthcare needs overseas to a country that is known to... — read more 

A survey of 1,500 US managers found that 25% of C-suite leaders admitted using return-to-office (RTO) mandates to prompt resignations, while 20% of HR professionals said their policies were intended to make staff leave. Nearly 40% of managers said... — read more 

I am a rehire and not updated in the system yet. Can someone confirm?

Something to consider - What this company is doing raises some serious red flags under employment law. When an employer sets rules that only apply to certain groups of employees—for example, requiring people who live within 30 miles of the office to... — read more 

It’s here to make you leave. And the conditions will only get tougher and harder to meet over time. It’s not that leadership doesn’t care about the difficulties RTO creates, they’re actively trying to make people fed up enough to quit, or set them up... — read more 

I have been having trouble sleeping and waking up at 3am every morning in with severe anxiety. Is anyone else struggling with this work order? I’m not sure if it’s the imminent disruption to my daily life, having to find and pay for before/after... — read more 

Anyone else who has been required to come in lately notice how nasty the work spaces have gotten? In building 2 the break room is filled with dishes covered in days old food and the fridge smells like mold. Desks are all strewn with trash and none... — read more 

It seems corporate for UHG/Optum frequent these pages and nudges the website to get things deleted/ removed. Which further proves how bad this company is. However, screen shots of the replies that reflect how upper level management and normal... — read more 

I commonly hear about people getting a voluntary severance package as opposed to laying people off. What incentives does that package include to get people to leave? Also what criteria do they use for offering one to employees. I’ve been here for... — read more 

Gotta be a play for the Trump plan to take over the PBM industry: Use his office to squeeze pharma companies with threat of tariffs to get prices down PBM reform that breaks up health insurers from owning PBMs Launch his own new private wholesale... — read more 

I have been reading every post and comment that appears so far, and just super curious to know how some of you are so headstrong in the belief that the remote workers are only working 2 hours but getting paid for 8. If you’re not a supervisor or a... — read more 

I have been with this company for five years and waited so long to get into Navi because they actually use to be really selective with who they hire: getting bought out by Optum who in turn got bought out by UHC has been a horrible down spiral and... — read more 

Profit margins above human lives. Policies written, lives disposed, They stamp it cold If you lack compassion you no longer belong in healthcare. For those who wish to make a change and got an order to RTO maybe blast a song off YouTube. The Dusty... — read more 

For those that have a RTO order and continued to WFH, have you faced any consequences?

Sick of constantly getting edged by this site with no payoff.

Yea that’s right folks, we are returning to the moon. Damn. /s RTO was apparently a big honeypot here or at best an outright lie

Whatever veep or c-suite mo--n enabled this team should start looking for a new job.

Are RTO just corporate offices they are looking at or any sales agency/clinic location?

There is no uhg office in the city next to where I live. We have two optum medical clinics which are very small. I don’t even see a uhg/uhc building anywhere on maps. Is there a way internally or otherwise to look up an “office” and what that even is... — read more 

Critical resources with 10 to 25 years with the company have either left, found new jobs, or they're already interviewing. They keep hamstringing our engineers/innovators with increasing loads of security requirements and bridling everyone with... — read more 

The 30% onshore and 70% offshore model is cracking! Especially with incompetent resources, vendors and time constraints.

Between layoffs, RTO, increased offshoring, and other forms of attrition, it feels like I’m standing on ground that’s slowly melting away. Great for morale, of course.

Will there be any layoffs at optum at home/care at home?

I was told on Tuesday that RTO will happen and I am on the list to be notified on Monday. But non of my team is on the list. I have one team member who is with in 30 minutes drive. They are a pg27. Is RTO based on paygrade as well?

They show a minimum of days in office of 4 days a week. Check it out yourself in job search. I just looked at a random job posting that said remote in Minnesota

Optum Sh-t Show

Like not to harm anyone or destroy anything obviously. But what if we just actually grab all of our collective ba--s and then don’t show up to work one day or don’t go into the office. Like we need to stop being such fu--ing cowards and actually do... — read more 

Has anyone’s manager successfully been able to transfer them from Hybrid to Remote? My manager said she’s in the process since I am the only team member in my location.

A lot of people it should theoretically apply to, including me, still haven’t. All it’s done so far is create a ton of confusion.

All DC and MN telecommuters are now required to come in. 65+ page document with a hundred names on each doc was released on people with statuses revoked. Criteria was 30 miles to either office.

Time to leave the company