For the employees still employed at Optum CA, I have seen no email or no notification of a meeting pertaining to the lay offs last week. That shows me more lay offs to come. I recall the last layoff in June 2023, they addressed the lay offs quickly. What are your thoughts?
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When the layoffs affected OptumInsight directly we were notified in a team meeting last year. We were told that the layoff rounds were not finished yet but, we were not in the line of sight. Yet, as for getting news of what is happening in other parts of the business (UHG/ UHC) Optum will never discuss what's happening in those businesses. The only way you will know what's happening is by NETWORKING around the company. Four of my colleagues from different departments are in the process of their whole call centers being "globalized" and sent to the Philippines currently so they're looking for jobs with no assistance, of course we all know of the cuts to Community Health Workers, IT, etc. Remember, it's not about who you know, it's about who knows you if you want to stay in the know and in the room when decisions are being discussed.
@1atp+1s8nWEN1 Or, you know, the layoffs are due to corporate greed and the typical shortsightedness you can expect at Optum/UHG. Do you think we moved all of our IT overseas because of money problems, during one of our most profitable years? Yeah, no. Leadership in this company as it stands has no sense of value for anything with non-immediate value. Everything has to fit neatly onto a report with zero nuance or actual insight into what the information presented by the report means.
Layoffs aren't happening due to economical issues, they are happening because they think they can save a quick buck and don't care or even know about the long-term ramifications these cuts will have on the company. Leadership is overestimating the quality of outsourced work and the capabilities of AI, and it will bite this company in the a-s.
Um the CA and US economy is great so we cannot announce to the world news that it is not. Would be bad for social credit score among the current political regime. Internally layoffs are never discussed with the groups that are not affected. Optum culture has always been if no employees were liquidated in the same direct manager its none of your business keep rowing. Only way you find out if someone gone outside your direct group is search for their name under NSlookup or an email bounces 'not authorized to send email to this person".
Directors will sometimes mention it if your office have company wide meetings. And sometimes they won’t mention it if they want to hide it, as the previous poster said. I have known it to happen both ways for my office. But I also think it’s only mentioned if your office was affected.
There’s there’s never emails or notification of layoff. It’s always done in secret and then you just find out people are gone.
No, I do not. In the office daily.
Do u WFH?