Can somebody explain that to me please?
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I've seen these offered in the past as a bridge to retirement for older workers at another employer and it had the same issue. Too many people volunteered which puts the company at risk for business continuity.
@a2 The funny thing is they lay off so many people, prioritized and reprioritized the wrong things, etc. so many times and for so long that they have created knowledge gaps regardless of this. We still have good employees, but that number goes down every time they make terrible decisions. The rot has reached too far up in this company and they should be looking inward for layoffs, not downward.
I suspect they know the response would be massive, leaving them short staffed until they could back fill us all with more staff in India.
@a2 my boss told me the same thing last year.
@OP . HR employee here...
There was an OT voluntary about 10 years ago. There has not been one since and the reason is the VR policy states a minimum of 55 years old and 10 years employment to qualify. They considered one 3 years ago and they were overly concerned that that group of people that would take the voluntary would be so large, that it would leave a knowledge debt gap that would be damaging. So since then, there has been no consideration of it in Optum. UHC however has had two or three of them in the last 10 years. The most recent one was last year.