There is talk of major lay offs taking place across Optum on 8/10/2023 over on the Optum thread. Apparently there was a meeting today with people leaders advising them on how to handle lay off meetings. 500+ people in the meeting
Anyone know if this is happening at UHC Thursday too??
More layoffs in San Antonio today.
UHG/ Optum this is a cold hearted company. I never felt appreciated. Management is impossible to contact.
Nothing like working for a global healthcare company, being discarded like a piece of disposable trash and given no medical coverage for even a Covid or flu shot!
Dr. Rapier sharing in today’s internal town hall that “no more company-wide reductions in force are anticipated, planned or even thought about.”
He later shared employees are “gonna have to do more with less” and will “have to be adaptive and creative.”
Place is a joke. It’s definitely not what it used to be 10+ years ago, such a shame how fast it declined.
My manager at Optum would ask about the well being of my young kids, (like they cared) which Is a honestly struggle right now. I was laid off a few days later. A more heads up would have been nice. Now my kids health care benefits are going away in less than a month. Extended benefits periods would’ve been nice. It was a big “fu-k you” from Optum and Leadership. Well fu-k you too!
I was also laid off from Optum without notice. I asked if I could get a letter of recommendation and my managers said uhc doesn’t like to do that. Felt very cold. The whole experience felt fake from the beginning I never felt like part of the team
I too was laid off in Colorado after 25 years. Don't believe anything they say about helping to find a new position for you within the company. Optum could care less about employees.
All true. This round targeted directors/sr directors and VP. People with long tenure and stock forfeitures. Nothing to do with performance just offloading more expensive workforce who groomed younger staff and wasted their better years dedicating themselves to this machine. Glad to be free and ashamed I ever believed in this place.
Same in Minnesota.
I'm really frustrated that there's absolutely nothing in the news about this.
yes it occurred. many many layoffs
Over 1,200 in the nearby Texas market, laid off. More to come next month. It’s across the board. Doctors, front desk, project managers, VP’s. I don’t understand how they are growing and opening new clinics but laying off so many people. How
clinics closing in Ohio to.
Is anyone filling a class action lawsuit? Or has anyone spoke with an attorney?
WellMed employees received this tone-deaf corporate message on Monday as part of the company’s daily “Firestarter” email. These emails are supposed to offer daily anecdotes and lessons meant to inspire the enterprise.
This felt especially insensitive given last week’s mass layoffs.
The “key takeaways” from Monday’s email read,
“· Events are neither inherently good/bad nor lucky/unlucky – Events are merely a destined chronological occurrence, to which we assign a positive or a negative value based on our perception. Sadly, more often than not, we lend a higher level of focus and energy to those events we perceive as negative versus the positivity and beauty that typically surrounds us 99% of the time.
· You never know what will follow – Sometimes the greatest challenges in our lives will push us to grow into more than we were before, or become greater than we ever thought possible. Hardship can tear you down if allowed, but it can also yield strength and wisdom if embraced. Your newly acquired resilience will be an upgrade to your emotional armor, and the lesson learned will serve as a sharpening of your intellectual sword. With every new battle, you are a fiercer warrior, so long as you keep standing up.
Life will always be full of uncertainty, both large and small, but happiness and peace are a PERSONAL CHOICE. If we do not empty our emotional travel bag from the trash we picked up yesterday, we may not be curious enough to collect tomorrow’s bounty.”
Yes it happened...I was one that got cut after 21 years of sweat and tears.
When your senior leadership is suddenly, without explanation or a goodbye, replaced with someone you have never heard of, that person is probably there to clean house (again). Our department had layoffs and now we pick up the slack once more. No longer human beings, we are "levers" to be pulled. My role has been constricted to the point of suffocation since our merger into UHG. I no longer have opportunities for creativity and doing the aspects of my field that used to make me want to get up and show up every day with a real smile on my face. I have only stayed out of loyalty to our team and the department I love, and to gain more experience points in my job title. There is no call for loyalty any longer, even to the people here I have come to love. There is no sense in building something together when it can/will be nuked into oblivion at any time. I am deciding for myself where I want to go next and what I want to do, and setting myself up for success with knowledge and qualifications to make a change in the direction I desire to go. I am finished with having my (and my colleagues') uniquely valuable knowledge, expertise, and skillsets exploited by an organization whose only goal is stock prices and profits, and to he-l with all the rest.
To everyone who was laid off. Please Google the WARN in your state. The company should have notified each of us within 60 days from the day of layoff. That is called a mass layoff.
The WARN Act requires employers with 100 or more full-time employees (not counting workers who have fewer than 6 months on the job) to provide at least 60 calendar days advance written notice of a worksite closing affecting 50 or more employees, or a mass layoff affecting at least 50 employees and 1/3 of the worksite's ...
What is the severance they are offering this round in August based upon years of service and pay grade I am a lvl 29 and would not be surprised if I was let go on near future and wonder what is the severance they are offering.
I had my severance package reviewed. Optum did not add a severance payment agreement form to sign. The paperwork has to be signed before you can get your severance package. Pretty much that paperwork they were wanting signed before 3-12 severance pay
save the company to not sue it’s called promise to not sue. Read your paperwork or have an attorney go over it.
Can’t believe companies are still conducting layoffs in such an uncaring and dismissive manner. And they wonder why employees are not loyal anymore! Look inwards guys!
Optum eliminated all the RN positions at medexpress on 8/10. Several hundred nurses let go. I was with the company 12 years. Will be really hard to start over. Still waiting to hear about the severance package. They have been expecting us to do more and more with less staff. I feel like the urgent care centers will fall apart soon. Emergencies will be a nightmare for the staff that is left.
I am a registered nurse and have worked at Medexpress in West Virginia for ten years. We were called on a conference call and read a letter by the manager. So classless. Our last day is September 7.
Optum fired hundreds of WellMed employees, but employees of their third party vendor in India didn’t lose their jobs. Way to support the American economy and the American workers!
1000+ employees laid off on Thursday 8/10. Mostly hourly, the mid-managers and upper management all kept their jobs. These were all WellMed employees. Morale is low and employees are angry.
In Optum Colorado, many offices had meetings about the layoffs stating that about 1000 employees in our region were let go. In the past few months, our specialty offices have been closing due to providers being let go for no reason and not being able to go to other companies due to non-compete agreements. This is all while we are acquiring these other big medical groups for huge amounts of money. They can do this but not take care of their own employees and clinics. One of our directors willingly left the company only a week prior to the layoffs which I think was because they knew what’s about to come. Managers are claiming telling their employees that they are safe, but I think this is just the beginning.
Their stocks value will drop if more media talks about this layoff.
Crazy how this is billion dollar company just to let the employees go just cause of funding and so forth! How about they let go of some leadership in San Antonio and keep us employees! Crazy how your manager sits here acting like she didn’t know what was going on when she did! But good luck to the rest of the Wellmed employees that are still employed you’re going to be picking up the slack of the ones who lost their jobs! And I’ll be sure to not recommend Wellmed to anyone as a patient or to work here. This place was toxic!!!
physicians are getting let go also. Unionize people.
Looked into the warn act. It is not applicable to UHG employees this includes WellMed. We all signed a contract and in that contract it says UHG is an “at will” employer meaning they do not need to give the notice requested by the warn act.
This is terrible!!!
Just letting you all know that the WARN act is both a federal and California rule and it sure seems like it could app,y here. Scroll down this page to see the parameters of this law: https://edd.ca.gov/en/jobs_and_training/layoff_services_warn
How many worthless and non-value adding DE&I employees were part of the RIF? What about the esteemed leadership of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion program?
Optum/UHG laid off many employees in the Orange County area. Just like everyone else a meeting in the morning and turn in your badge and your dismissed. "Oh but you are re hirable" such a big company and unable to accomodote or offer a diff position. Very sad so much for their values etc if this is how they take care of their employees just imagine the patients.
We are all….just a number…..United Wealth Care
It was a sad day for my entire department when we received the bad news. This is very disappointing, I wish they would of given us a heads up at leave a month. When the ceo did his township speech back in May. His word were that thing may change going in year 2024 and 2025, not 3 months later!! I’m sorry for everyone who got laid off with me just know God will blessed us with a better opportunity! Best of luck!!
24 yrs, Grade 28 in San Antonio
Experienced top performers had higher salaries and were let go in UHG. If they hadn’t reached 10 years company acquired additional savings with forfeited stock options.
I’m pretty sure that there will be NO bonuses this year or next year!!
The layoffs affected Navihealth as well, lost about 24 employees in NC, SC, and FL.