Shared during the town hall just now, CEO threatens employees to show up in person more if they are interested in keeping the Aetna office in Hartford.
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@ah Correct, this thug company needs to be investigated by the HHS and CMS for PBM discounts not being passed to patients. Also, they are under lawsuit in various states for not disclosing U & CP (Usual and Customary pricing) to patients having insurance as well as to govt. plan holders, which is deliberate fraud, hence they need to be sued by all the states and their AGs..
I'll miss yea olde Aetna building. Seems like just yesterday our previous CEO would come down from the great city of Boston to grace the halls of this old girl. Does anyone remember walking from Aetna to the new building. Ah, the smell of lunch being microwaved. The clammer of IT folks scurrying around. The view through the high glass ceiling. Aw, WTF give the old hag the wrecking ball!
I heard CVS is eliminating many jobs from retails front of stores in the corporate. SDE, Data Science, marketing and many others. Thy keep saying their main business is pharmacy, it seems they don’t make a lot from non pharmacy sales.
10 years from when the acquisition was announced in Dec 2017 isn’t too far away when you want to start planning for what to do with a huge property…
Keep the building, put an incubator in there and have startups kick off their projects. Then if they come up with something useful invest in their company. The advantage would be innovation without the legacy anchor around their neck of it having to do x, y, or z to make some stakeholder happy.
Read between the lines. You can't have 2 corporate headquarters. It has nothing to do with RTO.
@bt+1jtrnhgnm you're a fool if you think sitting in an office some arbitrary number of days per week will save you from layoffs.
I didnt interpret it as a threat. But logically speaking we can't have it both ways. As historic as the building is it doesn't make sense to be on the hook for that overhead if there aren't employees there.
They should get rid of goodwill
Regardless of no longer counting badge swipes, managers have the ability to enforce the return to Work and they don't. As for the "young hipsters" in my area, I beg to differ as IMO they are lazy and they are the ones who don't want to come in. Why not sell off the atrium again and revert back to just the Roger's building? That Atrium is wasteful.
It’s a grand old beautiful building with a rich history, but let’s be honest when Karen implemented mandatory return to office, all everybody did was whine and complain. A majority of people don’t want to go lock their day into sitting in an old office anymore. People appreciate the flexibility WFH offers, along with reduced travel expenses.
It’s time to modernize, get rid of the behemoth building from a time gone by, and its associated costs. Set up a small trendy location in Hartford for the young hipsters who wish to get the ‘vibrant’ Hartford city feel, or for the occasional business meeting and let the rest of the folks work from home.
When CVS purchased Aetna. They told the Hartford city leaders they would keep the building for 10 years. The CEO is full of S^%&*
Who cares? I don’t
Nothing is guaranteed. Business will change depending on a number of factors that you and leaders may or may not have control over. Look at Sears, their former headquarters was beautiful, with 5000 employees working there. Now the company is gone, and the entire complex torn down for a datacenter. Change happens fast, be nimble and open minded.
That’s what you got from that?
It seemed like a reasonable and balanced response rather than a threat.
Keep pushing for remote. They will just off shore some more.
Shut it down, move everyone to remote and save a ton of money.