Any information on this? Conspiracy brain tells me it’s in place to prevent any damage being done to critical source systems during layoff period. Totally baseless, just makes me wonder since there was no context supplied.
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Pro and it’s not good.
Facets or ProClaim?
Quote>>Rumor is that they sc--wed up something with claims processing. <
Not a rumor. It happened. It's big.
It's not layoffs. They wouldn't shut down changes for that, and besides, they didn't do it with the giant layoffs.
Rumor is that they sc--wed up something with claims processing. I know they've been criticized for using AI to process claims so wondering if that has something to do with it. They've been really quiet about it so that's why I think they messed something up.
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We’ve not do this around investor time before.
It’s a short stability period around Cigna Investor Day. They do this every year.
What is a stability period?
There has also been the platform migration thats been going on, which could also explain the stability period.
Past stability periods have been in December and early January to achieve stability for enrollment.
The timing of this one is odd.
Conspiracy brain saying this means layoffs for at least the next few weeks until steady state resumption in March? Either way, this sure doesn't seem a coincidence.
when did stability period start? we just had releases last week
There is a stability period from now until 3/8/24. Very unusual.
Probably not since they cut off access pretty quick, and there are lots of guardrails preventing one person from doing damage. Freeze might also be to create parity with alternate IT infrastructure in someplace like Hyderabad. Conspiratorial thinking here too, but they are definitely standing up a major IT center there to service all Cigna not just international. Rumors are the majority of IT will be based here…meaning more layoffs
The stability period that occurs every year going into and a bit out of 1/1? If yes, that has nothing to do with layoffs, and everything to do with keeping systems stable through the busy 1/1 period.