This is the only news I've seen in the media regarding the Optum layoffs yesterday which impacted MedExpress.
https://www.wtae.com/article/medexpress-urgent-care-nurses/44795312#
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I mean some job roles are going to be replaced by tech like AI. It’s still up to each person to manage your own career. The incompetent middle managers who got their jobs not because they were ready to lead but because they were given raises via promotions, don’t have the ability or interest to protect or develop us. Cronyism is another story to tell that’s gone on too long, mediocre people have become pompous a$$ directors who hopefully will soon be cut in this top heavy org!
"The media" is pathetic, the story is NOT just the layoffs. The story is that an immensely profitable USA healthcare organization, that presumably gets a lot of USA government contracts, is shifting its workforce OFFSHORE while laying off thousands of USA workers and putting the health information of Americans, into non-American hands. Most countries do not allow this.
The media keeps making it sound like oh noez, the economy is bad, pity the poor mega organizations having to lay off people. Just look at the stock. These layoffs do. not. have. to. happen at this scale
https://www.beckerspayer.com/payer/layoffs-hit-optum.html
That line that they gave the new folks is a complete lie too and we all know that. They give ZERO effort to try and place laid off employees elsewhere in the company.