Thread regarding Optum layoffs

No loyalty to employees

Those with longer tenure and higher salaries are the ones that were laid off even high performing employees. UHC has no loyalty to their employees, but demand employees have loyalty to the company. That is why year over year employee satisfaction is down and they do nothing. They reduce their workforce add more to employees left behind, they talk about burnout and how they address it but it’s all bs, while posting revenue of $530 billion, and they layoff good employees. In 4 months those positions will be reposted and they will hire younger candidates and pay them half of what the laid off employees were making. The average age of employees laid off in my UHC segment was 47. There is no algorithm as someone mentioned above, they simply pick those with the higher salaries within the same role and cut them. People have worked hard in the careers to get to where they are and UHC does not care about them. Do not believe their social media posts that “It’s a great place to work”, it’s not. You don’t see Andrew Witty taking a pay cut, nor those at the executive level in order to keep employees, no they rather layoff good employees and move on.

I'm reposting this from the UnitedHealth Group forum because it fits perfectly and can be applied to us as well. The same company, the same cr-p all around. The original is @2alk+1nPDjIhE.

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"It doesn't pay to work hard anymore at this company"...if you got spared this you have no choice. Some of the people who got let go, worked more than they got paid for. Went above and beyond. Exemplary reviews. Didnt matter. Those who could eat assloads of cake will now be rewarded with even more cake.

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Post ID: @1oew+1o6DUwxU

If you are nearing retirement, be afraid. Be very afraid. You will be laid off and then be given the glorious opportunity to take the job no one wants, “put out to pasture” as those of us long term are aware. It’s all smoke n mirrors. Be ready or find something better.

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Post ID: @1rok+1o6DUwxU

that's america. If you can get filipinos to work for @$9/day, then capitalism is "great". Isn't that what life is abt to the usians?

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Post ID: @mst+1o6DUwxU

This post gets it right. While it’s not just UHG (it does appear all major insurers are “following market trends” and laying off staff). This is a problem that could be solved by greedy executives being less greedy.

The very top leaders that preach to us every day that we’re all a family, we’re all one team, didn’t lose a cent, while thousands of people lost their livelihoods.

It is a fact, and you can simply google it and do the math. Take the top leadership and cut their bonuses by 50% and you can drop the layoffs by 75%.

The facts are that those people laid off WIL be rehired either here, by another department, likely for a higher wage. Or by a competitor in the future. That’s a guarantee. The system will stabilize. These execs have no problem giving the staff a 1% bonus. Practice what you preach for a year and save jobs and retain that knowledge.

I’m certain there are people on here that have lost coworkers that have knowledge that no others have. Eventually, that gap will close, but until it does, there’s just a gap that nobody knows how to fill.

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Post ID: @cfb+1o6DUwxU

Couldn’t have said it better myself. I was a dedicated high performer.

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Post ID: @kkh+1o6DUwxU

I completely agree to not give a maximum effort to a company that invests in offshoring good jobs. The management is blind enough or naive enough to think offshore workers do as much as I can, they don’t see it takes 2-3 of them collaborating to get one thing done! So yeah quiet quitting is the only payback

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Post ID: @qfx+1o6DUwxU

It doesn't pay to work hard anymore at this company. Do the bare minimum and collect a check.

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