There 100% were layoffs in OH C&S. There is incontrovertible evidence. It wasn't alot but there were some. (in response to the person saying there were no layoffs in C&S Ohio.)
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About 15 in E&I Affordability - Director Level - Grade 30+. That's about 30% of Affordability.
30 RIFs in E&I Marketing effective 8/10, about 10% of total staff
You mean you work in Ohio remotely?
Have you heard about more layoffs coming in September? I’m also Ohio c&s…
Several Network Engagement Managers across the country were let go including Director, Manager and Team Lead levels. This wasn’t based on performance. Several high performing highly seasoned NEMa were impeded and laid off. This is four months after the NEM Team went through the exact same upheaval and an entire Pod was eliminated. Those employees impacted were given a month to job search. This round of employees impacted were only given 10 weeks with the termination date being 8/10. I don’t know why those imputed were not allows a month as well.
I am in OH Community and State leadership and there have been zero layoffs, and as far as we know, nothing planned, for UHC CnS specifically. Optum has its own leadership and layoff decisions. ( response to below post about OH specifically)
It appears there is a trend of using "retirement" as an excuse for involuntary terminations from UHG at the VP level. We have had now 3 VPs suddenly "retire" but it is handled in a way that does not resemble an actual retirement. In what should be a joyous occasion with a thirty day announcement notice, these are informally
"announced" by employee chat and when questions are asked, it is said the person has decided to retire. No retirement party, no celebration for years of service, yeah really seems like a true retirement to us. Our CEO hides in her office and is so disconnected from her M&R division, a complete coward. Employee groups have been moved under other incompetent a-s kissing "leaders" that have no experience in the areas that they are now responsible for leading. Chaos, internal conflict, and jockeying for positions of power rules the day.
For those impacted by the recent layoffs, expose the UHC practice by posting responses to UHC's LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, etc. pages with comments asking why someone would apply for a role at UHC when they are laying off existing workers.
Media never covers our layoffs.
For as long as I remember, we only report that we need more h1b visa workers. (a) We need more immigration, h1b visa workers are higher skilled than American. Or that (b) American education does not produce enough highly skilled workers. (c) We need more funding to improve education system and we need more h1b visa workers today.
Different news, all the same things
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2023/03/14/survey-finds-h-1b-visa-restrictions-push-more-jobs-out-of-us/?sh=4507f5c71e7c
https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/collision-conference-2023-canada-announces-changes-to-immigration-policy-to-attract-tech-talent-1.1938630
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartanderson/2023/07/02/canadas-immigration-rules-boost-companies-and-h-1b-visa-holders/?sh=6679cdaf7dd7
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-14/the-us-can-t-afford-to-lose-skilled-immigrants-like-h-1b-visa-holders#xj4y7vzkg
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-21/2022-tech-layoffs-leave-h-1b-visa-holders-in-limbo#xj4y7vzkg
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/29/tech-sector-h-1b-workers-spouses-can-work-in-us-judge-says/
https://fortune.com/2023/05/26/90-of-laid-off-h1-b-visa-holders-were-able-to-find-new-work-against-all-odds-heres-what-the-data-tells-us-about-americas-complicated-relationship-with-foreign-born-talent/
We need media covering this layoff and shining light, seems there is no coverage of this big layoff. Not a single comment from company and no accountability. Anyone has media connection?
I have heard at least 25 in LCRA. That is about 3% if it is just UHC. Seems plausible if it was supposed to be 5% or a certain dollar amount. But to others comments it is the only quick way to keep beating wall street. And that is how all corporations this size are measured. The governments (fed and state) control how much an insurance product may be sold for so the UHC side doesn’t have wiggle room. Optum and UHG to some extent have more room for some administrative costs.
Why has there been no communication around this?
Yes I agree 20K isn’t a stretch…… but 20K we’re certainly not let go last week.
UHC has 400,000 employees world wide. I don’t think 20k is too much of a stretch-they’re just doing it over an extended period instead of all at once. E&I eliminated the regional growth officer role, announced a sudden regional ceo “retirement” (person was in the role a year and told staff she’d been waiting for this role), and combining lots of leadership roles. The last round they added in lots of staff both locally and nationally. That’s just 1 division.
20k staff is consistent with the 5% reduction in staff that’s been mentioned several times. Given some of the changes they’ve had, I’ll be surprised if they don’t go deeper. Right now the execs don’t seem to care if the company can be run on the current staffing, they are trying to post more and more record profits and cutting staff is the easiest way to do that.
I highly doubt 20K were let go
Is there a source for that?
Over 20K corporate wide were RIF'ed
I heard from a very reliable source that over 1,400 from Optum and UHC were (and will be) impacted. Looking at some of these posts from this site and the Optum layoff page it appears to be correct. Yikes.
MCNA lost around 30
What kind of roles were these?
I dont know the total throughout the company but I was told in our Ohio area there was 12 total in community and state. They dissolved the maternity child department and let go of 2 in that department. Other teams absorbed the remaining members that were not let go o n that team