Thread regarding Optum layoffs

RTO being counterproductive

Hadn't thought much about RTO in last few weeks. I didn't get hit and neither did most who I work with directly. We're all pretty spread out, so not near one of the offices where RTO has happened so far. But sat through a client call this morning where the person leading the call was in office. It was horrible. That person is trying to have an important discussion with the client and we all hear people in the background the entire time. They weren't particularly loud or whatever. Sounded like they were also on a work related call based on the stuff you could clearly hear them talking about.

Poor colleague knew it too, clearly. They tried to use mute to mitigate the issue, but that only led to them being muted when they were trying to talk and not muted when they seemed to think they were. And for what? I know this colleague is not interacting with anyone at the office site that is involved at all with any of our work.

So stupid.


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Post ID: @OP+1kc25kh0x

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Well 10+ years ago people had cubicles for privacy, but they had to implement the stupid collaborative workstations where people sit on top of each other and you hear every sneeze, fa-t, cough, laugh, yell constantly with no privacy, all in the name of collaboration for useless collaborative desks

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Post ID: @15n+1kc25kh0x

@ek sir, this isn’t Reddit. Tell the mo--n to use an office. Plenty of reasons why RTO is counter productive, but yeah a perfectly avoidable situation is totally the main reason why it su-ks.

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Post ID: @er+1kc25kh0x

@ac Plenty of open offices at all the locations all the time, though? Also, seems like you're intentionally missing the point - that employee had a private, fully custom office space that the company didn't spend a dime on just a few weeks ago before some corporate a--hat decided to take it away because of "muh coprprit kulture" or whatever

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Post ID: @ek+1kc25kh0x

There’s no point in going in. None of my coworkers are going and I haven’t been in for 4 days and there has been no punishment. My manager also let us know that it won’t affect bonus or raise for 2026

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Post ID: @eg+1kc25kh0x

Place was a ghost town with snowstorms. Now that the 401ks are dozered I heard a few “fu-k this” and people leaving for the day without taking the laptop home.

This is all according to plan. They want a skeleton staff at UHC and Optum, given most of our payers and health systems are firing us.

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Post ID: @ag+1kc25kh0x

Plenty of open offices to use for important calls. That's on them. Now go take a look at the 401K email and get mad at something that really matters.

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Post ID: @ac+1kc25kh0x

I save any important calls for my work from home days unfortunately.

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Post ID: @a7+1kc25kh0x

@a1 People who want to be productive and efficient care. People who make logical decisions care. People who were hired on under conditions where they did not have to commute and saw that as a deciding factor to take the position care.

Plenty of people care. That you do not is probably the exception.

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