With more and more organizations going to 5-day RTO, I'd expect a mediocre, follow-the-herd company like Cigna to fall in lockstep within the foreseeable future.
Evanko's Town Hall comments about the wonders of having a "best friend at work" just seemed to be laying the foundation.
Anyone with educated guess and/or practical insight and willing to comment?
@jz Now these sc-mbag leaders want to lead in the era of AI. Considering their ethics and values we should be very scared now for Cigna/Evernorth.
Of course they lied to us. They figured we'd be too stupid to notice, or they don't respect us enough to care. Likely a mix of both.
And they got away with it, consequence-free...
@OP it’s a complete joke. The reason cited for RTO is to foster “collaboration”, yet all of my team members are either in Hyderabad or scattered all over the US. Doesn’t matter. Evanko has already fired or retired the folks on my team who had decades of institutional knowledge and dumped everything on my shoulders. Started interviewing outside the company and industry altogether.
It's a way to force natural attrition. The layoffs haven't stopped and won't. Maybe this is their way of forcing you into an office and if you can't, well you can no longer perform the job and therefore also no severance for you.
I remember back in the day they were trying to get people out of the office working remotely because back 18 years ago they calculated it was costing 11k a year for each employee to be in the office. I know commercial real estate is cheap now but the rest of the cost would have to have gone up exponentially to negate the depressed commercial real estate market.
Will this be true even for people not close to an office?
4 days/wk is a certainty after Labor Day. 5 is not off the table yet. Directive is to make full use of available space, so more people will be going back to the office.
@bm Every Cigna office I’ve been to in the past 3 years has been at least half empty. There may be some offices where space is a problem but not the bigger ones. Some of them are complete ghost towns.
@ah Don't you worry - you are going to be sold any day now so you can make new friends! The announcement is coming........
I am getting 2 calls a day for fully remote offers - Friday I was offered a Senior AI Engineering role at Blue Cross Blue Shield while I am being told to be back in the office
Which one would you pursue - Good luck to everyone looking.
I would say they keep as is considering such a high percentage of employees are 100% work from home.
There aren't enough offices for the staff remaining. They closed and sold so many properties. IF they force a return to work it should go back to having to earn the right to WAH, not hiring WAH to people who have not proven their dedication and self-discipline.
EviCore here and no I don't wanna be friends with any of ya'll
It’s for sure coming.
I can certainly see an announcement on July 1st stating all employees put on notice - 5 days in person effective 9/2