During 3 years of covid not much layoffs, but now they are trimming the workforce and maximizing their greedy pockets. Seems like they dont need us. Even physician groups they acquired are at risk, just look at Southern California. Managers are su-king up the C-suites, even their jobs are at risk. We are all at risk. Does unionizing minimize are chances of layoffs?
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Some need to hear this. First your former colleagues and soon to be former colleagues have already moved on. Your work friends are only friendly to you because they have to be. None of you were that special or irreplaceable.
Redundant roles. Obsolete functions. High cost, low value contributors. Etc. Life goes on. Get over it.
Second... your next company won't value you any differently when their business changes.
Third, unions, politicians and government programs don't give a damn either, so long as you cough up dues, taxes or dependency they can leverage for their own gain.
Bi--hing changes nothing.
"I was on the front lines risking .. " nothing
All in Cebu. Go to Cebu Philippines and get your jobs back
I was on the front lines risking my family’s and my life daily while he was behind zoom meetings.
Ya'll are overlooking the fact that Sir W. was the one who took a year-long hiatus to work on an injection with the WHO. Think about the global implications behind that.
Whether you agree or not, a big part of this issue is related to tax breaks for big corporations to send American jobs off shore. Looking for PM jobs on the internal site yield many located in India, Philippines and Ireland. There used to be a tariff assessed if jobs were sent abroad, but that was overturned in 2021.
They have been doing this monthly since at least 2018. Obviously, this is all about motivating you to not be the slowest gazelle. No one is THAT bad at predicting their staffing needs.
I heard about 8000 layoffs just in california during the last wave of layoffs. Is this number true?
I haven't seen any indication it was even 800 in CA since April. I'm open to being wrong if anyone has even anecdotal evidence of that many cuts in CA at Optum/UHG.
I heard about 8000 layoffs just in california during the last wave of layoffs. Is this number true?
If true im heading to kaiser system!!!!
What are you talking about. There were enormous layoffs in 2020, including at Optum.
Unemployment was like twenty five percent.
I left to kaiser system from optum’s slavery and they treat workers better and more stability instead of having fear of layoff waves. Staff is better paid and more stability- nurses are unionized at kaiser.
Does unionizing minimize are chances of layoffs?
If you want every possible job sent to Cebu as fast as they can buy desks for the workers, go ahead and try to unionize.
1: interest rates are higher now so money costs more
2: some government payment rate is down or will go down
3: people didn't use healthcare (avoided surgeries/screenings) during covid. now people are electing to do those things again and at least in some cases, delaying screenings results in higher cost care later
4: we might just have d-mb greedy masters