Watch out UHG…. If Microsoft and Adobe were called out for foreign workers. Your next! It’s about time you stop undermining American workers.
Great job JD!
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@jr You must not work in tech in MN. Look at the org chart. They bring H1Bs over to be the 4th and 5th levels in the "leadership" VP, sr. director levels and they bring H1Bs over for admin tasks at the lower levels. The org chart shows the H1B leadership levels have one onshore resource for tens of offshore resources that they build up under them. JZ and her org goes to India often to meet with their teams. UHG/Optum has these deep levels of leadership for blame. But most levels until you hit the bottom are just doing reporting and having H1B levels of mgmt works better for offshore resources.
@jr Neither. It’s time to bring awareness to this awful practice. Send your Congressman emails.
@dm that's L1 not H1B! Did you not read abd understand what I said? L1 us NOT part of the ban. This whole ban thing won't make a dent. stop drinking the cool aid. Offshoring is a much bigger issue right now. How many in new H1B employees have you seen lately? I have 0 in our org if 150+ people. But what we do have is 100+ and rapidly growing offshore. They have only hired offshore FTEs the past 2 years.
@jq shorry, that's crazy..I wonder how some got to keep it.. there was no opportunity to negotiate keeping RSU as part of the layoff package?
@jc last time I checked UHG barely sponsors h1b or any visa. They directly send the job offshore. what would you rather have..H1B workers paying tax and participating in the US economy or ship the job offshore with no tax and US Medicare/SS contribution
@jp no
@jc did you get to keep your unvested RSU when you got laid off?
All the recent Visa fraud investigations need to focus on Optum. Everything this administration is against happens yearly at Optum, I was devalued, I was asked to train the Indians taking over my roles until I refused. Then I was put out to pasture and since I didn’t quit I was “laid” off, but I was fired nicely. I have been gone 2yrs and don’t GAF about UHG anymore. My EEP stock value is in the toilet because of this company’s weak woke CSuite staff. But I tuned back in to see if this company is being investigated for abusing H1B and offshoring. My stock can’t go much lower so write your legislators, get the spotlight turned on!
America is being crushed by the weight of its own arrogance
@ba well said
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, under direction from Vice President Vance, is cracking down on national origin discrimination. Any employee affected by an American company showing favoritism to foreign workers can file a complaint at EEOC dot gov. This isn't just about visas...it can be for any reason, such as layoffs where Americans are replaced by foreign workers, being forced to train your foreign replacement, or offshore managers discriminating against onshore employees. The chair of this agency gave several interviews last week, and she is very interested in hearing everyone's experiences and going after companies prioritizing profits over supporting their American employees. Time to spill the tea!
@ba LOL actually we do have Otpum employees fly to the US and do exactly this, it's not fake news.
Maybe now it’s the time for us American workers to start filing class action lawsuits. If not at least start contacting our Congressman especially in Texas
@ac lol that's L1, not H1. H1 is expensive and for 6 years they don't just come to learn and leave. L1 or B2 are the short term visas. Those are not impacted. This ban is also a sham. Why not oracle, Amazon, Tesla? We know why! Stop drinking that cool aid
He’s married to a H1B.
This is the start. Get rid of these worthless H1B's, J1's, PERMS, all of the fraud and cheap labor scams! Then follow the crumbs to the offshores. Every American company should be penalized heavily when they offshore anything.
I'm not American. I'm not part of the mass offshoring that's taking place either.
However, we want to be in the States. We want to contribute to the US and leave here behind. Will it happen? Unlikely.. but we dream.
I've been with the company for a long time.
@ab Yep, many fly into the US to get trained by Americans and take the knowldge transfer back to the offshore teams to ramp up offshoring.
It looks like Optum had 340 H1Bs in 2026:
https://h1b.report/employer/optum-services-inc
FY2026 LCA filings
Optum Services: 340
UnitedHealthcare Services: 37
Optum Care: 7
someone is just learning how politics are played. But please keep watching.
They say one thing today but their behavior continues to show they will let companies offshore and import foreign workers. Wouldn’t get too excited.
That administration is misguided as usual... At least H1Bs are people who want to live here and participate in our economy... JD needs to call out the offshoring.