Thread regarding Optum layoffs

What is the process for 2/19?

What should we expect to see? What time? Who will hear what?
Asking from Home Health - recently acquired from LHC.


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@a5 They find out the afternoon before and usually don’t have any input. It’s already decided. Not even allowed to ask questions or share input.

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Post ID: @es+1khs914wf

@ar What part of Optum Health?

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Post ID: @cv+1khs914wf

I got an invite for Optum Helath in the morning.

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Post ID: @ar+1khs914wf

@a2 15 years. I’m so sorry.

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Post ID: @aq+1khs914wf

Which dept got emails?

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Post ID: @ak+1khs914wf

Just got a meeting invite from my manager for tomorrow. Looks like I’ll be getting chopped good luck everyone.

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Post ID: @aj+1khs914wf

The meeting could also be everyone in the region. The email invite will go out tonight or tomorrow morning. I feel sorry for you as Optum likes to acquire businesses and then lay off their people.

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Post ID: @aa+1khs914wf

@a2 I was RIFd in 2024 and rehired, when I was rehired for a different position that manager apologized and was told they have to read from that script and that script only for legal purposes

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Post ID: @a6+1khs914wf

@OP I'll concur with what's been said, you'll either get a short early call, or a later call with the survivors. In my case my manger didn't now much before I did, he didn't make the call, it was from above. He's a great guy, and was so distraught I had to ask him if he was going to be okay. I was only mildly shocked, I figured I make it into 2026, but not out. Timing was earlier than expected. Glad I was cut loose sooner rather than later.

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Post ID: @a5+1khs914wf

@OP You will probably see one of two meetings scheduled on Teams -- a one-on-one with your manager OR a meeting with your entire team.

I received a meeting request from my manager on Friday morning (Jan. 23) a half hour before we met. Subject: Team changes

When I realized my colleagues weren't on Teams with me, I knew. Ugh. Punch to the gut after 15+ years.

No emotion from my manager at all. He offered a simple hello and then spent 10 minutes reading HR cr-p from his computer. At the end: No good luck. No goodbye. I was disgusted, so I hung up.

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