This won't be layoff in the traditional sense, it will be realign/restructure/RTO for company needs orne forced out maybe some early retirement for people. But SF doesn't need layoffs when they can just pull the right levers and force people to leave. That last giant survey we did a few months back was just them finding out how far they can turn the dial each time to achieve the desired effect.
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Bumping this up for visibility.
@fx The number of Fire claims roles in the job bank proves that this is a lie.
My brother was told no renewal. Apparently want only citizens regardless of skill. He is interviewing outside so he and his family wotn have to leave the us.
I am still waiting to see if SF will sponsor my renewal. Should I look for another job? I can’t keep getting the run around.
We were told that there will be no more hiring in Fire Claims this year. Basically what is happening is they are just trying to fire and fire people....basically for any reason. VPs meeting with all Fire Leadership, SM and above and they are about to get an arszzz chewing. Expense per Unit........we are back to staffing to a budget number....f-ck the customer service and f-ck the customer....we have to get our huge SMIP bonuses! Su-kers!!!!
@a7 claims needs people since they keep almost every department purposely understaffed with insane turnover and zero effort towards retaining. Departments that management wants to reduce employees get the buyout package.
Keep in mind this is using their disastrous agile six sigma super efficiency model that destroyed General Electric (a good read if anyones interested look it up) after a short term line go up boost. This is what our dinosaur executives use.
If these offers ever came to to the senior claim handlers, they would get a lot of salary off the books
@a5 there is a 72 month max payout and that is for people that have been here for 3 plus decades. Many won't approach that number
@OP Pull the lever… more like flush the toilet and watch the waste swirl the bowl! Hahaha
If they are pushing so many to claims. Will claims get the exit offers for their employees close to retirement age at some point?
Well they are offering people buyouts based on how long theyve been with the company and i think how old they are. It was sort of explained that some people could effectively be paid to leave now but still get paid a couple years worth of pay. Basically for people just about or past retirement could get a massive payout to just retire now. The department im in got that, no offers to move into other roles ect, they are fishing to pay our near retirement people to just leave.
After seeing the payout calculations, you would have to be insane to not take the offer. If i was even within 5 years to retire id take it, its that good.
Some of the entry level roles are having more movement, with many being pushed into claims, then any more needing to go theyll offer the retirement buyout.
But yeah State farm has, for a long time, chosen to buyout, push people out, ect vs official layoffs. They did "layoffs" when they started closing the larger operation centers, non hub buildings, but i think even then so many people quit vs move that they needed to keep people and let those people work remote, and they still are.
So yeah no layoff just everything else that causes people to leave.
At least with my department they are offering to pay older people to leave, and im jealous....like getting a $150k lump sum to retire now vs a year or two later is just insanely good. i would say 0% chance they will have to force people out if they are tossing cash at people.