UnitedHealth’s Optum cuts more than 800 jobs this year, the latest in New Jersey

Optum, the health services division at Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group, is laying off about 160 workers in New Jersey.

The job cuts will take effect in December, according to a regulatory filing this week, and follow announcements earlier this year that Optum would eliminate 524 jobs in California and 129 jobs in Ohio.

The positions that were eliminated in other states had to be reported because they fit the requirements laid out in the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act.

UnitedHealth Group has not announced any cuts in Minnesota nor filed a WARN notice of layoffs in the state, where the company employs more than 19,000 people. The company declined to give any details on employment changes in Minnesota.

Global employment this spring at UnitedHealth was 400,000 people.

https://www.startribune.com/unitedhealth-optum-job-cuts-ohio-new-jersey-california-minnesota/601148388

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Pretty sure all those jobs and people that got laid off. Got replaced by people in the Philippines.

Did that fat sack of sh!t K V Obli Prabu get the boot?

Hope so!

Does this include the NJ market itself or only the site of basking ridge

From the same article:
"In April, Witty told investors the company employed 400,000 people — a figure that was down about 10% from the 440,000 listed as the year-end 2023 tally in a regulatory filing. A company spokesman said UnitedHealth Group’s divestiture of its health care and insurance business in Brazil was part of the decline, but not the only factor."

So they pretty much hit their 10% target... bonuses all around! (executives only)

Last year was a 10% reduction This year’s target is 10% total reduction. Not sure on target for 25 yet.

That is severely an undercount. They eliminate more than that each round in this hunger games.

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