Anyone else reflecting on this week wondering what the he-l just happened? A typical week became a week of doom and gloom. It became hard to focus, the rumor mill roaring along with a sorry excuse of response by our CEO. In all my years at HCSC, I’ve never felt more betrayed by the company. No clear vision.. no clear communication… where’s the email that says what happens next? Are we really just going to feel like we’re in limbo until someone explains what the plan forward is? This is exhausting… I’m starting to think a layoff wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world
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Hard to focus on your job, no matter what your personal opinion is.
Truth is, there is no "good" way to sever someone. Read the script, cover the severance, send me on my way. Nothing personal. If I quit on my own accord, I wouldn't worry about hurting the corporation's feelings.
@cq layoffs are not normal. they should not be normalized. this is all about greed.
@cv ethical is a bought and paid for recognition. We fail on every level with our own employees. ( care to guess how many so called leaders have multiple complaints against them with no action taken? They get coaching instead!)
Any ounce of transparency would be nice. I'm work in a position where I work with multiple departments across the org. I'm legit stuck trying to figure out who from my contacts is no longer with the company. My boss told us we need to check the meetings we have on our calendar to see if any of the participants fell off but they won't tell us any names. Or if we have plans for future meetings and we see that someone is no longer with the company we have to figure out who they reported to to reach out to them to figure out how to proceed. It's a mess, it's slowing us down, and a huge kick to moral and trust.
Welcome to corporate America! Many companies have been handling their layoffs just like this for YEARs. HCSC JUST fell in line. Complete disregard to FMLA job protection guidelines etc. The CEO sits on a fat golden egg while the people doing the work are cut, lied to, not communicated to and no regard for
morale. All the execs care about is themselves. Strap on your seat belt when they realize that MA plans aren't profitable anymore and they keep bleeding cash for the big ticket Cigna acquisition. The waves of layoffs will keep coming.
I think people would like transparency, advance notice to give more time to find another role and simply more decency in communication; not the 2 sentence script read to them, followed by an insincere message by the CEO. I think folks especially with 10,20,30+ years of service deserve more grace and appreciation for their service shown at minimum with sincerity in words, time to allow for the news to sink in and time to look for a new role (at minimum 30 day notice), not 1 week and you’re termed (accept severance or not). You’re left with no choice.
HCSC claims to be the most ethical and diverse along with commitment to core values, yet when decisions like this are made, it’s not communicated with integrity, care, respect, commitment or excellence. Just because leaders/HR want to be consistent with communication doesn’t mean it has to be without sincerity. Let leaders thank their employee being impacted. Let them share with their team and say goodbye. Let them take their belongings with dignity, not walked out by security they’ve never even met to receive belongings by mail. Yes some folks react differently but most aren’t going to act irate, most would want to give hugs to their teams/peers, say goodbye, clean their desks out (especially those with long tenured years)
But all of this is forgotten. HR/leaders the business, whomever makes the decision wants to take time to make the decisions to determine impacted, yet want to make the communications swift and fast over 2-3 days and wait to communicate to the teams impacted and expect them to figure out how to help or support with the work in one day. It’s a** backwards.
@cq oops on the typos.
If layoffs have to happen, I’m curious how employees think it should be handled. Also, what do you think would’ve been more appropriate from Maurice? Just looking for opinions.
This round of layoffs is like every other round of layoffs I’ve been at all the other companies I’ve worked for, and this is how it worked decades ago at my father’s long time, employer. If the company lets word out that people are going to be laid off then people will start leaving like rats from a sinking ship.
Would you rather not know until the last minute or would you rather no wait in advance? Would you rather get the message from Reese that really doesn’t say anything or would you rather get something that says look we’re in trouble here we need to make cuts. We’re sorry we love you. We wish we could keep you. Either way, I would be equally angry, maybe even more angry if they tried to hit me up with a bunch of kindness before they kicked me out. Would love to hear people‘s thoughts and opinions on this.
I agree that it’s difficult to work and stay sane during these times. People have so many responsibilities these days and they need to not have this burden of not knowing what is going to happen.
@a4 great call out. I felt like we saw how bad this company was before the legacy employees (who are seeing it now) ever did.
I think everyone expects layoffs after a big company mergers with a smaller division. Usually, the smaller entity gets the worse end of the stick. People know and expect this.
What happened at hcsc this week was very.... out of the normal for hcsc, but seemingly becoming the norm.
That’s exactly how most Cigna peeps felt during the acquisition.