Thread regarding Optum layoffs

Tomorrow's Optum Insight Operations Town Hall Meeting

There was an invite sent out last week for the Optum Insight Operations Town Hall Meeting, scheduled for tomorrow.

The meeting was just moved to 9am - an unusual time of day for a typical town hall. On Monday my team's director mandated that anyone within driving distance of corporate headquarters must be onsite to attend the meeting in-person, and all remote workers must attend virtually. My team's leadership has never required us to attend these in the past (even though most do) let alone mandate we drive into the office and attend in-person!

Something feels fishy about this meeting. Has anyone else heard anything? It's making my entire team uneasy today.

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"Body in the room" = well said! Thats all they care about, using human bodies as their shield while boosting up their upcoming bonuses and stock options. Sad state of this organization.

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Post ID: @1dfm+1olVDPNJ

Town halls are recorded events so there’s NO way they are laying off at the Town Hall, with how they’ve tried to keep layoffs more quiet frankly. I’m guessing it’s potentially because they want an audience and the interns are back at school? And then make it mandatory for others because they’ve asked folks to drive in. I bet they want bodies in the room, that’s all.

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Post ID: @1lez+1olVDPNJ

It's Wednesday, so maybe a prelude of what may be coming and a status update?
Townhalls have never been mandatory but just sometimes informational.
Thursday is customarily layoff notice day aka right-sizing, down-sizing, cost-cutting.

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Post ID: @1iuq+1olVDPNJ

Did you ask your Director why attendance was manadtory? And what reason did they give?

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Post ID: @1ntk+1olVDPNJ

The paranoia has set in.

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Post ID: @1vni+1olVDPNJ

Seriously, the org is run like a dictatorship. Zero transparency, the people who actually DO THE WORK aren’t important enough to communicate with.

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Post ID: @ncu+1olVDPNJ

Great culture we have when every meeting people feel like they are going to be canned

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