How are people feeling about the future outlook of Cigna? I am looking to leave, but people keep encouraging me to just look elsewhere in the company and leave my department. I don't see that things are much better in other areas. A majority of employees seem miserable and unhappy. Sh*t rolls downhill and it seems like the issues are institutional, coming from the top down. I don't know that it's better at any similar org. I just know it's been terrible here lately. Maybe it's time for a pivot to something different altogether.
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The outlook is brownish, sloppy, smells and goes down a toilet.
Why look internal? It’s bad all over.
You know someone is racist or too stupid to avoid biased media when they think DEI is the cause of culture problems at Cigna. As a white hetero male, the majority of failures, problems, and toxic workplaces I’ve experienced have all been the cause of white hetero males. Making sure people of different races, cultures, s-xes, s-xual orientation, and gender identities are treated like a HUMAN BEING is a good thing. The people who have a problem with DEI are threatened. Probably because they don’t want someone different than them to get a chance to outshine them. Or it goes against their Aryan MAGA sensibilities. I don’t know. The culture at Cigna su-ks because of greed and nothing else.
Wow to the folks seemingly disgruntled over DEI initiatives. Y'all sound like miserable people and I'm willing to bet some if you are closeted racists. DEI isn't the reason Cigna's culture and workplace are trash. People like you are most likely contributing to the problem, though. The organization's greed and willing disregard for their employees health and wellbeing with policies like FOW and mass layoffs resulting in unmanageable workloads are root causes to this downward spiral. Stop blaming the obvious on initiatives like DEI and things that drive to put equity in place where it already should be.
@2sdy+1rOsf4vB “I simply couldn’t get behind a lot of the woke garbage being shoved down employees’ throats (yes, that’s you, DEI)“ Toxic people like you are why Cigna is so awful. There is no “woke” going on. As much as I hate Cigna, the only “DEI” expectation is to treat everyone with respect regardless of who they are (because at its core DEI is just treat others how you would want to be treated like Jesus said) and generally that’s what happens and is one of Cigna’s very very few strengths. There are some people who are quietly racist and s-xist, and if you’re the kind of person who thinks the common decency expectations are “woke garbage” then glad you quit and I hope your current employer finds out about your anti-human leanings ASAP.
That said the outlook at Cigna is bad. Benefits continue to be stripped away. Incompetent managers keep being hired from outside, while qualified talent from within is not. Teams get more understaffed, slower, and sloppier. It is not sustainable. I am on a good team for now and am lucky, but after 4 years don’t plan on staying more than a year or so. Just waiting until the job market isn’t so messed up.
Squid Games Cigna. Your number is up and poof you’re gone.
I left voluntarily almost a year ago, and it absolutely was the best decision I ever made. After longer than I care to admit, I couldn’t take the stress of Cigna a minute longer. And it wasn’t just that - I simply couldn’t get behind a lot of the woke garbage being shoved down employees’ throats (yes, that’s you, DEI). Word of advice: life after Cigna is good. Real good. Get out if you can.
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Your post is so relatable, I'm concerned that my boss might think I wrote it! Maybe you're my coworker, or maybe the majority of the employees feel the same way. Sadly, I'm guessing it's the latter.
I left due to a job elimination several months ago but I wasn’t unemployed long. Now working for a smaller company with a great ELT. They take pride in their employees. Additionally, they provide tools to do your job well and the benefits are much better, including pay - even after 15+ years. I’m so thankful for the job elimination. There is so much life after Cigna.
You are 100% spot on. This is a top down issue and I find it hard to believe that upper management is unaware of this, it’s just that they do not care. To answer your question, the future of Cigna is looking quite grim. For that reason and many more, my main priority as of now is to leave. As many others on this site have noted, the stress has become overwhelming and for my own health I need gtfo. There’s no point in sticking it out in a role that I dread doing everyday and causes this much damage to my physical health.
To be frank, I hate the role itself, hate the company, and the only silver lining has been a few good coworkers and ability to WFH. I refuse to wait around for things to improve. It’s beginning to look like the upward mobility we are promised is a huge hunk of BS as I know people who have remained PAs for YEARS despite applying to numerous internal roles. These aren’t undeserving workers either, I’m talking top tier representatives who would have moved up the ladder by now if they worked for a better organization.
Working here feels icky as the health insurance industry is icky and I’d rather not be affiliated with any industry deemed as a “necessary evil.”
Looking around the net seeing who's been getting laid off the most (older more senior employees), paints a pretty grim picture of what happens to many that stay in this company for too long. Couple that with the fact that there's a "loyalty tax" on people that have been here for several years, and there's really only one intelligent choice.
Don't stay at Cigna for more than a few years if you want your skills to stay fresh and you want to make top dollar. Trying to retire here will just have you making less money than your peers and put you at a disadvantage when you suddenly have to reenter the market with a limited skillset. Cigna is actively trying to get rid of people now. Don't stay where you're not want.
Of course, it's always a gamble that your next job may be just as toxic or worse. But, you'll almost always make more money switching teams and increasing your skillset every few years. Your loyalty will be punished, not rewarded here.
I had thought about looking elsewhere within the company about a year ago as I was unhappy with the leadership in my team. By the time I was eligible to move to another position, the company changes with FOW showed that I'd need to be hybrid in order to get into another team. Then, it became apparent that rolling layoffs were happening in the fall and this spring. I'm done with Cigna.
There's a risk to any change. There's no guarantee that switching jobs within or outside the company will be better. But there's no guarantee it won't. There's only so much to you can vet a company or team. Even talking to connections won't out all the skeletons there may be. So do as much due diligence as you can and make the best decision for yourself (and your family). And if you end up finding yourself out of the frying pan and into the fire, reassess, and do what you need to keep searching for better.