@sv Agree 100%
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@t7 bingo. Looks better in the news, and costs them less. And if an employee is over 55- classify them as retiring
@jg Fromer Cigna employee here. I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of us would not be willing to relocate for this company. We were already lied to before the sale closed and advised that our medical, RX, and dental benefits would be "comparable" to what we had at Cigna. They aren't; all the benefits are much worse. They also withheld the fact that we would be getting three less vacation days with hcsc for over 7 or 8 months from the date the intent to sell was announced. hcsc is also much less flexible than Cigna in many ways. Also, trying to be a "national" company while also trying to force employees into an hcsc office is id--tic. Cigna has employees working from home all over the country. It makes no sense to try and force them to relocate...unless the objective is to get us to quit without paying a severance.
@OP what's interesting if there is a push to have former Cigna employees in non HCSC states need to relocate and a need for everyone back in the office...meanwhile the City of Chicago in the red and suggesting taxes on corp for in office folks...so, interesting on motives for all of what is going on.
IDK, to me, they said some stuff. They definitely confirmed their focus is being national now and not local. That aligns with the s#%t show being experienced by the local teams in Texas. The reorg that was announced in clinical ops this week moved a substantial number of people from local(s) to national side of things. They said the technical integration will be at least until March of next year which is the anniversary of the sale, and I’m not sure what, but there’s gotta be some significance to that. There were several mentions in this town hall and others this week that we’re using substantially more AI than I was aware of. I attended three town halls this week and they all, essentially, had the same messaging. Sounds to me like there will be a huge push to move money in that area.
I agree, it felt scripted but I think they made reoccurring points, if you paid attention. I think the strategy is focusing on things like, in office requirements, decreasing PTO, hiring freeze, moving employees from exempt to non exempt, changing titles, etc. have two intentions, first to decrease financials, and for natural attrition to occur. If financials are not improved through these things, then a layoff is probably coming.
If you equate national growth with needing people you are incorrect. When you automate and streamline using AI you no longer need as many people, even to grow.
@gz Except for this occasion, when everyone seemed disengaged, KC is usually very effective and engaging.
The entire leadership team is so unpolished. Meeting was a waste of time. Such underwhelming and uninspired leadership.
Terrible meeting. Never mentioned the hiring freeze or the massive reshuffling of executives at the top of the food chain getting higher salaries. Stephen Harris talk like 10-15 minutes rambling about Medicare/Medicaid but said absolutely nothing of value. These are just executives showing off, picking hand selected easy questions to make them look smart and make them look as they care, but in the end we get nothing of value. The should just send a PowerPoint and be done with this.
It was so painful. Said nothing. You could tell they wrote the questions ahead of time.
@OP We would be better off posting here when there is a noteworthy all hands. Hmm looks like we won't be talking LOL
@cp 100% agree. It was a waste of time and frankly- she probably needs to go.
@cm Agree. No information provided on performance YTD, weak reasons for the current structure, and none of the speakers said anything meaningful. One of her direct reports wasn’t even in attendance. She has been much better in the past, but yesterday she sounded like someone very unsure of what she is doing, or someone not sold on what she’s been asked to do.
Her entire existence could have been an email. Glad we spent 20 minutes listening to her ramble through an org chart.
Waste of time and she’s an awful public speaker. She has zero interest in us and only does these because they tell her too. It was supposed to be 90 minutes but that sure didn’t happen.
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