I just wanted to add something positive. I think layoffs are always a part of companies. When they hit, they hit and UGH is a big company. Hoping for the best, but this company is one of the best out there.
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I really don’t u detest and this. “UGH” has been the best employer I’ve had. The raises, half days with full pay, lunches, did I say BONUS! And I mean a lot of Bonus! I keep seeing new opportunities and doors opening- as some folks exit. Let’s all work a little extra and make”UGH” great again!
It is a big corporation that chews people and stops you out. They want you to work days night and weekends. But then when it is time compensate, oh keep it up, maybe next year. The IT area is a sweat shop. Glad to be retiring next year.
You must have been drunk when you posted this. Not only does it not make sense, you couldn't even get the name of the company right. It's UHG, not UGH. So, who can take you seriously? As others have posted, UHG once was a great company until a few years ago when greed set in and the whole company changed for the worse.
I would have agreed with you up until 01/2019 when our operations were handed over to a VP in India and they started chopping US jobs and moving the operations to OGS. Hundreds of US workers, including myself and most of my team, were laid off between October 2019 and March 2020. And the positions rehired in OGS.
The management of OT lost their souls. Not a single one of the management ever reached out to offer support, assistance, recommendations, etc even when asked they ignored the requests. They treated those laid off like we had the plague. Heartless. They lost the their corporate values of compassion, caring, trust, etc.
OGS ruined a good organization.
A great healthcare company would let their employees work from home instead of caring about appearances and bodies in desks.
People are in praise because they are worried about their jobs. Those that lose their jobs naturally feel less love towards the company. I have worked across a number of similar organisations but do admit to losing my job. My take is that there are some really good people however politics and a rafter of poor senior managers are impacting the business. The struggle between the exposed culture but then the pressure to meet short term shareholder expectations have people confused. Unfortunately the real choke on the business are the Minneapolis elite. Too many decisions are the centre, too many layers of management, too many mistakes.
We agree! Great company. We have fixed so many things that the last team(s) could not have fixed in the last years of their service. Glad we were able to come on board and move this company forward and clean this endless mess up. In fact, they would have been in such a mess with COVID had we not stepped in. We actually took them from UGH back to UHG.
Looks like onshore fixed another mistake.
I agree. UHG is a wonderful place to spend your career. Can’t think of anywhere else I’d rather be! Thank you UHG (not UGH) - let’s face it - you should be called BEST
It's REALLY hard to take you serious when you can't even get the company initials correct.
When the people who are left refer to the company as UGH I guess they are getting what they pay for.
I agree with the director feedback. I have worked with united for over 7 years and until the 2 years this was a wonderful place to work and I really felt like this company matched my values. In the last 2 years however, with the focus to offshore so much of the work, we have lost so many quality people that had so much collective knowledge that simply cannot be regained. It isn't the offshore as an issue, it is the cuts they made with no knowledge transfers etc. Our customers should be the priority not our stockholders. Our employees should be considered an asset to the company not a liability. When you focus on stockholder you lose focus on what continues to grow your business. Customers. Happy customers stay with a business and grow the business.
I used to think so. I spent a huge portion of my life with this company, helping it grow into the success it is today. Unfortunately over the last two years changes in management and culture has turned it into a very toxic environment. I was a director there, and we were constantly told to find ways to reduce staff, even when it didn't make sense. We were given quotas on how many people we rate highly on evals, as well as mandatory quotas for the number of 'needs improvement' staff - which over the past couple years was basically saying 'get rid of these people.' I felt like the new 'culture' direction was great, and I was even a culture ambassador, but when they changed the 'leadership' positions all of that quickly went by the wayside.
So I'd agree that UHG has some good people, but as a company, it's not that great anymore.