This round will be Thursday 10/15. Go to HR Central, search Job Elimination, and click the Manager Guide for Job Eliminations (this may be limited for those without managerial roles). Within that article, it'll have a slide deck that outlines all of the events for this week including the 10/15 notification date. Good luck all!
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I was a contractor hired in June, told to expect conversion to full-time in 6 months unless I committed a fireable offense. Of course, I didn't do anything wrong and was told Monday my assignment would be terminated, but it was not performance-based. Weird that they would create headcount for me if they knew I would be part of this purge. That's the last time I leave a stable job for promises like that.
@pf for Feb 2026 layoff I know my director was asked to provide the list to sr director by mid Dec 2025, before the holidays.
@ex Not being able to change your W2 tax election would make sense as an indicator to planned lay off - if HR let you update tax election the day before a layoff all their billing, mail everything would be effed.
CHECK YOUR W2 TAX ELECTION ABILITY AND REPORT BACK IF ACCURATE!!
@kx can you speak further to this? for the february 2026 layoffs, when do you think they decided who would be laid off?
Layoff lists are curated many months in advance so Sr Managers should know if they have a proper relationship with the Director. In majority cases the director is curating the list but allegedly it can be from someone even higher.
This is not specific to Cigna btw.. I’ve seen the same in two other F500 companies.
@ex I’ve heard this in another threads that this was one of the signs.
@ee I'm fairly certain the managers already know whose going on 10/15. I believe they have known for a few weeks now.
Is it a sign if I get a “access denied” when I click on either of the Tax Election/W2 links?
@ep Yes Band 4
@em are you a manager?
@em Manager job elimination training
I went on HR Central and couldn’t see anything. What is the name of the specific link? I looked 4th one down and it’s just generic documents about severance but hasn’t been updated in months.
@eh no mid-level management doesn’t know about layoffs ahead of time. It looks like the calendar was put out there yesterday. I don’t get what you mean why would I be covering for myself when I’m trying to help and share information
Well this is interesting a coworker on a previous team who collaborated with ours was referring to meeting notes on their one and one and their teams recordings are completely gutted meaning there's no notes there's no transcripts no recordings no nothing...... They were thinking this is The Purge before The Purge any insight I was wondering myself if this is a telltale sign
@ee Either that or they dod no along for weeks now and you, perhaps as a leader yourself, are just covering your tracks for yourself and other middle to low level leaders.
I heard 10/8 for the longest time, not sure what happened there. After reading this post I went to HR Central, can confirm too layoffs are 10/15. The deck in the 4th link with a timeline, but note only managers can access this page.
Managers find out today, 10/13, at some point. Whomever is impacted will get a meeting invite from their manager, sent out the morning of 10/15 but meeting can be anytime during the day before 4pm.
Just know your manager likely had no say in the matter but is expected to deliver the news. The decisions are made by senior level roles, I always heard high band 5 and up. So if you have a standard mid level manager they weren’t involved. I’m so sick of these so called leaders making decisions on roles when they are SO disconnected from the actual work.
I think behavioral is about to be gutted.
@OP is this in behavioral? Evernorth?
@b9 what do you mean lately? Cigna has always hated its customers
@ba In most cases during these mass layoffs you are not expected to work after the notification, but I think it's on a department by department discretion.
It's at least 30 days until termination after notified, but I've heard some rumors of 60 days. Assume 30.
What actually happens during the process? You have the meeting on the 15th, then what? How long are you employed? They just have a bunch of people that keep trucking through the job knowing it's over?
@b0 "the pharmacy customers absolutely hate foreigners"
And lately Cigna hates it's customers so that makes sense.
@as unless you are out on medical leave or bereavement, they will call you on your day off to have the job elimination conversation - that whole speech with talking points is also in the manager deck. Sorry.
Anyone have any idea how big the layoffs are going to be on Thursday?
if i had to guess it's express scripts and accredo, timing lines up with all the hiring and the new center they were building overseas which they swore last year wasn't gonna be used for job replacement
amusing though because during my short time with them before moving to general administration the pharmacy customers absolutely hate foreigners
Does it imply which departments will be affected?
@ap Yeah, you are probably safe then. Just turn off your phone, go camping, don’t tell anyone where you have gone, and avoid any type of communication with the outside world whatsoever and you will be fine.
Of course, I’m kidding. On a serious note, I do hope that you snd everyone will be fine.
It is a shame these corporations have turned on their employees the way they have the last few years.
@ap doesn’t matter
They will get ahold of you on your day off to let you go. They will call.
Nearly my entire team including our mgr is OOO this Thursday.
How in the #%{* do you get fired on your day off?!?!
good thing i dont work on thursdays
This is 100% accurate - I just checked myself and all the manager materials are out there and the date of 10/15 is in the deck.
I believe it’s 10/26