Id--t below stated OI doesn’t do anything, but per the most recent earnings release reported the highest operating margin across all UHG entities. Guess the money must be falling from the sky in the OI world…
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30 not 35
poppycock
@cp Finally a smart comment. This is the problem with this site. You are correct
A lot of contract negotiations in OI and Finance have frozen. This is exactly what I feared. Halt work and when they mothball and fire whoever they plan, they can decide which customers they want to renew with this substantially lower workforce.
What areas of OI are being let go?
@OP Nonsense. One business unit isn't releasing that may people in one shot. This is a clickbait post
Sh---y code, the glue that holds it all together.
Sit back and enjoy watching it burn.
The current levels of offshoring have already resulted in systemic dysfunction and the most poorly written products imaginable. But, what do you expect from a bunch of dipsh-ts running tech at an insurance company?
Reap what you sow.
@bj building on what @bx said, a lot of what OI does is facilitate the functioning of other divisions. I'm not in OI, but OI's work and tech has enabled a lot of the 40-90% headcount cuts to other areas (not that those reductions were always well advised).
A lot of the applied process support/automation/optimization work over the last 5-10 years has come out what remains of teams currently structured under OI, with most of the work, knowledge base and continued maintenance being US based.
Almost zero effort has been made to prepare this to be handed off to either contractor or OGA teams, and the "cleanup" from the Change Health breach resulted in a TON of project source material and documentation for currently deployed work being wiped, and zero time/resources allocated to reconstruct/replace the lost bodies of work.
Tl;dr: The people currently supporting the existing processes that Optum (actually) runs on are probably the ones that are going to get cut this round. Things will be OK, until an existing process needs to be updated, changed or expanded, at which point things will start breaking.
A lot of stuff would stop working in short order if handed off to OGA teams that don't understand it, but I could see SLT trying it anyway.
@bb BLOCK just laid off 40% of their staff in one rip
@bb OI is the single most 'logical' target if one accepts '100x AI'.
I mean OI doesnt really do anything. I could see it
That is just so immature and silly - You cannot cut 1/3 of any organization that fast. Gaslighter!