It seems like every week we get an email removing one more benefit.
If they take away work from home they will not need to lay people off, I fear many will be forced to quit.
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They are going down. I have presented 1 bill to Reps about tax breaks co. that get 50% working from home and another to Dems going on and on about saving planet with wfh and imposing tax increase for co. That don't wfh....why not go back to pony Express mail delivery and giving your doctor a chicken and basket of Orange's after a flu shot? I am really disappointed in Gail. I would have thought a woman knowing the challenges of being a woman and doing it all could relate. Clearly she has been indoctrinated into the good ol boys club and has so much money she can hire someone to clean house and if she had kids under 18 take to school. You Gail have lost touch with us working folks and don't forget last person who made the choice at Yahoo got paid to go away. Maybe that is your hope a big final payday as u ruin the work life balance of all of us.
Anthem is now all about compensation for a chosen few executives. How do they increase their gluttony? Cut USA employees, transition jobs to a new India based subsidiary, cut benefits for USA employees, have frequent firings (RIFs), deny member benefits, raise plan costs, on and on.
I’m a current employee with years of IT experience in several different industries and Anthem is as bad or worse than any of them. Gail is a joke!
Good luck to us!
it's been two years, but gail is now officially abolishing work at home.
Good Riddance Mr. Miller.
There has been no announcement yet regarding any changes due to Tom Miller's departure to the work-from-home policy. However, we are all so very hopeful that his archaic idea of abolishing work-from-home and relocating all IT employees to five core locations leaves with him.
Tom's goal was to increase collaboration and ideation. In his defense, a long time ago there were some "good ol' days" of holing up in one location like Xerox PARC or Lockheed Martin Skunkworks for engineers to get stuff done, but those were back before technology existed to work and collaborate remotely--and, hmmm..., those PARC guys were the ones who invented much of the enabling technology that allows work-from-home... One thing Tom does not understand is that relocate does not equal collaborate and ideate--it often just means lose and not attract the best ideators because they are those best able to get re-employeed wherever they want to live or work remotely.
Sorry for my ignorance, but can you clarify what Tom Miller's departure means for work from home people?
Tom Miller's boss, Gloria McCarthy, announced last week (Wednesday, March 21st, 2018) that he will be leaving the company by the end of the month. It is not clear if he was asked to leave or is leaving on his own. Either way, good riddance! Hopefully the antiquated work-from-central-locations madness will now end.
I left Anthem almost a year ago because work at home was taken away in the Senior Business department I was in.
Does anyone understand how we exceeded all 4 measurements in our AIP yet we are having 28% taken off the top of the AIP? HR has yet to explain this in light of the earnings call on Wednesday and the disappointing AIP note from Marc Nathan on Thursday.
There is more than talk about removing work at home. Work-at-home has already been publically stated to be going away in the next 5 years. The communications plans will be shared later this month to explain timing to associates impacted in 2017.
My answer and insight is an IT-centric one but IT is being used as a the canary in the coal mine to see if they can do it with other business areas. Tom Miller (CIO) has presented his plan to other interested leaders in business units. I have no confirmation of Jose Tomas' views but his outlook on associate reviews are counter-cultural in the 21st century and more 1950s so I wouldn't be surprised to learn there is an HR driver here as well.
Yes. And they are moving all IT to Atlanta, Norfolk or Richmond VA or Indy.
Prepare the lifeboats as the exodus is about to begin. 3rd Quarter earnings announced this morning show a significant miss on EPS. Getting to the AIP funding goal of 10.80 for the year is slim to none. If Anthem misses then no AIP. Not just a partial. None. Watch for the brain drain tonstart. Too bad really. Anthem was starting to go places yet recent decisions are a mess. No wonder Wayne left.
Yes. WOrk at home people will be going away over the next 3 years. Employees will be required to work from local Anthem Offices. I am not sure what happens if you are no where near an office. I know I won't be staying around when work from home ends.
How did we ever end up with a management team like this? I fully understand the fact that companies have to answer to a large degree to both Wall Street and boards of directors, but these guys are taking to an extreme.
I used to feel valued as an employee, but the current CIO seems to view HR resources the same way he views capital resources, such as computers, keyboards and cell phones: If he can save money here by replacing this employee with a cheaper model, he will do it. If he thinks that it would be cool to have every IT person working out of the same five data centers, that's ok too, and the personal talent, company knowledge and historical track records of the individuals who will be force out simply don't matter.
Yep, we are all just replaceable drill bits sitting in a tool box, and if the CIO sees another drill bit that seems more suitable for the initiative of the day, he is going to grab it, and you are going to be swapped out. "By the way, we don't really care about you as an individual, but good luck in your new career anyway."
Is there actually talk of removing work from home?