Does anybody know when the Allina Enterprise Partnership is going to end and layoffs will take place?
Optum to Northwell
Anyone hear anything official about when Rhinebeck Optum will transition to Northwell or when Kingston will transition to WMC? Docs have had meetings for months. Staff has heard nothing official
This Goes Beyond Layoffs or Company Culture
It's starting to feel like we're watching America decline from every angle. The people at the top seem to know where things are headed, and instead of trying to strengthen the country, they're focused on making sure they, their friends, and their... — read more
Offshoring most our job COULD be affecting culture...
Like seriously, acting like we have a culture at all that cares about healthcare when we have people's data in a snag of wires outside of an offshore building in India and forcing people with decades of experience to report to folks in India might... — read more
This culture call is horrible
The guy was asked how culture gives an advantage and the dude went off on his dad passing ( I mean sorry for your loss ) but then he told the whole world he was a bad person? Like what is going on here. They have no answers. So just give long... — read more
Have layoffs slowed down?
It certainly feels like it to me.
Embarrassing
Some of the leadership in town halls, they don’t even pretend to fake it. Last Town hall, some of them even started blaming AGI as a hoax and here I thought that we are the champion of AI and AGI with $2 billion spent. ROI will bite us badly watch... — read more
Culture week
Next week is Culture Week, everyone! Get ready for the toxic leaders of one of the world's most contemptible, companies to gaslight their employees into thinking we have a culture that goes beyond mistreating people, devaluing them and underpaying... — read more
Are providers afraid of being laid off because of AI? No! And here's a video made by AI explaining why.
...Don't ask how many of our promo team survived the latest RIF.
RTO
Anyone know if they are expanding RTO still? Has anyone been able to get an exception?
CHC
Any CHC people still here or has all been laid off?
VACCN Nextgen
2 regions East and West. GOOD LUCK 👍
So many familiar faces are leaving
People I respected, and people who seemed happy until a few years ago. It tells you a lot about how much this place has changed in just a few short years. Even I'm starting to look at my options, and I've been at Optum for more than fifteen years... — read more
Toxic offshore managers and leaders
Anyone dealing with Indian offshore manager and .not including you in meetings and chats? My director is now offshore and she has all the meetings during India times which is after midnight for me. I am not even on the invites, no communication... — read more
Lazy new female hires - fakes their way in.
I noticed lately they are hiring a lot of young females in AI/ML/Data science/Data engineering type roles. I noticed that they don't anything. They use AI and one junk analysis a day. They are gone by 4 pm because..kids, School pickup or whatever... — read more
HouseCalls Question
Question for HouseCalls APCs — how’s everyone’s schedule looking for August and September? Curious if others are noticing a pattern of unusually few visits scheduled starting mid-August onward.
Retiring vs Laid off?
Why do some announce they are retiring but you can tell it seems forced? Does upper leadership tell these people they are being laid off and then lie to everyone about the real reason? I have seen this in at least 4 people in the last year. At first... — read more
July 30th Megathread
Use this thread for the layoffs on July 30th
RED OCTOBER MEGATHREAD
Since it's now been confirmed, let's track red October info here. Please share what you hear from senior Dr+. Stay strong!
How many have been laid off today?
This sounds more like regular surgical cuts that always happen than a major round.
Lay offs 7/23/26
Are there more lay offs coming tomorrow!
It's so boring
Working for optum is so boring and mundane even being in a role that's supposed to require compentecy HA. Can someone from HR locate me via vpn and put me off the next layoff pleaseeeeeeeeee. I hate my life here ! There's a ton of people stressed... — read more
Salary positions
Quick question. We are salary employees, we have recently been required to work holidays with only a 15% diff, if the holiday fall on the weekend. If it falls during the week we get no additional money. Also we are required to stay late, people are... — read more
Hitting a wall in the job search
I've been trying to find something new for months. I've got plenty of experience, but I can't get a single interview. Is age really that big of a factor? I'm 54.
Internal postings
Any one want to share about internally moving to a lateral position or higher? How is the process to tell the current manager that you want to move elsewhere ?
Yet Another Massive Optum Tech Outage
Entire enterprise IT stack for Optum tech down from 10PM to 4AM 100% outage across all cloud providers and regions. Not the first time this has happened. Not the second, or third either. The only way teams got out of it was by completely disabling... — read more
H&CC
Just received an invite to a team meeting for H&CC in my region for next month which is very rare, could this be something we are all dreading:/
Allina
Any updates on RCM? Wasn’t there for leadership meeting today and curious what was spoken about
Women Lead Session
Why is the Women Lead session being lead by a Man? He rewords what she says and does most of the talking. Can someone tell him to he is not a woman? Another example of Optum not getting it right. I just want him to shut up.
Leadership
What’s going on PW UHG org? New CISO, CDO, ETIPs head …. mostly from financial institutions. Any insight?
Talent review!?
We are being asked to do review. Is this a precursor for identifying people to put on layoff list? Looking for intel.
OAH aka Optum At Home layoffs?
Hearing there are layoffs happening at optum and was wondering if anyone has heard about layoffs in the Optum At Home dept.
July Layoff Thread
Let's use this thread for the July 23rd layoffs. I know there are some in Optum Rx.
Can my manager lay me off
Can my manager lay me off just because he's doesn't like me? He cannot make a case of bad performance because I literally get praises And thank yous everywhere from all the other stakeholders. I am IC. Can he fire my me or somehow influence the HR or... — read more
Optum laying off 98 in divvyDose pharmacy
https://share.google/pH0M2KdPS0pQE7Khg MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) - 98 workers will be laid off due to the closure of a Moline pharmacy. Workers will start being laid off from divvyDOSE on 44th Avenue in Moline in August, according to Illinois WARN... — read more
Survey
A coworker of mine said he was sent a random employee experience pulse survey. Do you think they’re looking at him to possibly add him to the list?
My job posted with lower grade
I’ve confirmed they really are lowing grades for the exact same position. What a sh-t company this is.
Department Transitioning to Center of Excellence
Does this mean we are about to get RIFed?
Aug 20
Learned today that’s the next wave
May RIF Severance?
Has anyone laid off in May (last day 6/10) received their severance yet?