Thread regarding Cigna layoffs

@b1 wrong - they kept the nepotism teams because that’s all the nepo teams will let them see. Great idea in practice but impossible in reality

@ag

I’m guessing today is the notification date.
What is the termination date?

McKinsey is spot on. This is generally what they evaluate:

• Span of control: How many employees report to each manager? Could one manager supervise a larger team?
• Layers of management: Are there too many levels between frontline employees and senior leadership?
• Role duplication: Are multiple departments performing similar functions?
• Productivity: How much work is produced relative to staffing expense?
• Organizational design: Could departments be combined, centralized, or reorganized?
• Automation potential: Could technology handle responsibilities currently performed by employees?

And these are the areas or people with the highest risk exposure:

• Managers with relatively few direct reports.
• Departments with similar responsibilities or duplicated services.
• Roles primarily focused on coordination, reporting, or administrative approvals.
• Functions that could be centralized into shared-service teams.
• Positions involving repetitive, rules-based work that could be automated.
• Activities that are difficult to connect to measurable business value.

@aw you are so kind my mgr is a d$$k

@ay the outside consultant is McKinsey

@am They are looking to cut costs in the billions in 2027, word is an outside third party has been hired to as--s everything and make suggested cuts next. It doesn't seem to ever end

@aj Nope! They made us attend a meeting earlier this week to coach us but we have no direct support when we meet and talk to the employee.

@ah I was told I had to get rid of 1 but I took my teams roles and current functions up to leadership to get feedback on how that work would be covered if any one was eliminated. The person selected was based on how we could spread the workload and their position was no longer needed. I feel for this person, it is so unfair and f'd up when they have been meeting their goals and had no reason to be let go other than we want to save money and this position seems not worth what we are paying...

@as I’m sorry

@aq what department?

@ap I was let go. I saw it coming though. They were pulling projects off me but the people needing things done were sent to me. But then I wasn’t allowed to work with them. It was obvious it was coming.

@ap me too

They just laid off one of their best performers. No one is safe.

Part of me hopes I'm let go today, I haven't felt safe for years, but the unknown of what's next is terrifying in this economy right now. I'm so burnt out and depressed.
It's become a pattern for them to let go of good employees right before the holidays.

@ac good luck

@ag I’m sorry you had to do that! A few of us want the package and were hoping to be let go.?if we’re not told today is that the end of layoffs for the year? I’d rather someone that needs their job to keep it. Is the package the same as February?

@ac and if the POS “manager” that sent mine in 2024 it will have a 😊 in the closing….

Is HR being part of these meetings?

@ag were you told to let go of a specific person or was it just “let go of 1 person from your team” and you had to decide?

As a manager I had to let go of an employee this morning, I know of another on a different team got the message as well. Cr-ppy morning all around

No email, but an unexpected meeting popped up on my schedule. I'm expecting the worst.

Cigna doesn't lay people off via email. It's a meeting invite with a subject of something like "organizational update".

Can anyone post the layoff email?

Not to defend Cigna here, but if you read the news, you can basically see where the layoffs are heading, too. It is like any other business: if you have an ice cream section and a cooking section, and you aren't selling enough ice cream, you know the chef isn't the one who is going to be let go.

Here is what is in the news—hopefully, this gives you an idea of who is next: Cigna Healthcare will stop offering medical Individual & Family Plans (IFPs) starting January 1, 2027, with coverage ending December 31, 2026. Sounds familiar with we are starting to layoff next year???

Provider Newsroom

What’s Changing

Effective date: January 1, 2027

Coverage end date: December 31, 2026 — all current IFP members will retain coverage through that date.

Scope: Applies to medical IFPs both on and off the Health Insurance Marketplace.

Not Affected

Cigna’s commercial medical plans
Dental IFPs
Participation in other Cigna Healthcare and Evernorth Behavioral Health networks

Still hoping to get laid off but ready to give up

@a4 that’s crazy

@OP you mean layoff? Last time the people being let go were called to a meeting

Cigna lays people off over email?

Sad to hear.
Godspeed IFP employees.

I didn’t get it, but 45 min in and I’ve had 6 people reach out (mostly IFP matrix partners) to tell me they’ve been let go. As if morale wasn’t already in the sh*tter.