Why is it mostly us at Optum that have to worry about our jobs all the time? There are many GL 30 and 31 with no directs over at UHC, while at Optum GL29 has 15 directs. Seems they need an alignment.
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There have been monthly layoffs in UHC too. The numbers have been a little smaller and they're hitting more UHC departments overall. So it might be just 1 or 2 people in a larger team, and they keep it very hush-hush. People just quietly disappear or retire. When I was laid off earlier this year (from UHC) I only knew of a handful of the others even though I was told I was one of about 300 laid off that month.
UHC is the money maker and the biggest customer of Optum. Optum is net loss. Without UHC Optum will have no businesses, no other companies are going to but it's sh---y products. No to mention Optum tech teams are terrible, offshore especially. UHC is not great either but they have lot more business folks.