I'm asking because it makes no sense who they choose to lay off from our team. Our best people are gone. Who sits down to make a list of people to lay off and starts with those who have the most experience and are most knowledgeable? We have people who joined a year ago who are still here. Yet a company veteran with decades of institutional knowledge is gone. Who does that?
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The RCM department was hit hard. I wonder what the clients will think when they try to email there contacts and it is returned. My clients do not know that I was part of the layoffs. They will soon enough when I accept a new position next week! Just be professional, give two weeks and them do what what need to do.
Training the India team it crazy as well. You only train your replacement when you leave on good terms!
What was even more fun was being told initially during the layoff meeting that benefits and pay would continue until the end of February, only for HR to send a correction saying oops! It’s actually mid-January.
What the he-l.
I’m still trying to understand who all got axed. Sounds like a lot of our R&D team but I’m also reading other departments including client facing departments were hit. I’m sending out emails and a lot are coming back undelivered already. What happened to working until February. Did some get let go without that option? I find this all disturbing.
Apparently the DEI team made the hard decisions based primarily on Equity. I can’t fathom why they turned a blind eye to subject matter expertise.
That’s what makes no sense. Some of the hardest working people have been laid-off or told their time ends as of end of Feb. These people held some vital positions and not just that, they had the knowledge and experience to excel at what they did. And to top it off, they had wonderful customer service and our clients could actually understand them…..
That combination is a dying breed and so valuable and that cannot be taught. I am afraid to see how this will all unravel. I have read through these posts and I can see it’s a continuous cycle of acquiring companies and not likely to end. I am a bit surprised the acquisition process isn’t smoothed out by now since there has been so many over the years….. Turns my stomach. How can I be proud to say I work here?….
The Cerner folks are arrogant and lame. They will help run that place into the ground like they did Cerner.
The only apperent criteria for the layoffs was to dramaticaly reduce the R&D expenses. The entire team that built NextGen Share Interoperability solution was let go. Several other US-based develpment teams were either eliminated or severely reduced. Even NextGen Enterprise EHR development was chopped up with lead developer and several others being laid off. And that is despite NexGen CEO telling us just two days that they were going to focus on NextGen Enterprise EHR development...
I believe money was a factor but I also think if you were a recent hire from Cerner, you were safe.
Of all the US resources layed-off, I haven't found one that was from the now defunct Cerner. A lot of the Cerner employees were also brought in at a pretty high position. Like a project manager at Cerner then come into NextGen as a Director.
The CEO has connections to Cerner so it makes a lot of sense.
When NextGen purchased the company I worked for the layoffs were based on money. I was specifically told by the bossman, who I had only met twice, "I was told to cut costs." So I'd be willing to bet that your best workers made the most cash, therefore they're gone.
I feel for you guys and wish you the absolute best.