Starting a new post. Has anyone heard anything from a reputable source about layoffs tomorrow? It’s extremely difficult to work today. My anxiety is through the roof. Managers claim they don’t know anything.
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@w5 I don't discount your experiences, but please don't put all nurses in a bucket. I will say the issues are more systemic than you may realize. Metrics and business have gotten in the way of patient care. It's beyond nurses and impacts physicians too. It's sad seeing the demise. All of this negatively impacts patients when business and metrics are the center. The nurse probably has to meet a quota.
I am not a nurse but the stuff I have seen is heart-breaking from a systems level view. I hope you get better experiences with your care!
@w5 im sorry you've had that experience from the nurses you've had contact with, but please don't put us all in that category. I for one care greatly about my / our patients. They are the reason I became a nurse, and then came to work for this company. I thought it was an opportunity to help people in a differentway than the traditional nursing role. Unfortunately, the company no longer, IMO, puts that first. It seems it's more about the business of making money.
@es I am not the poster but agree..nurses are terrible. They dont care about patients..on phone all the time. They act like we are bothering them when asking any questions
@f3 Not sure about OT, but the “redeployment program” that’s supposedly offered to impacted employees is basically non-existent now. I know people who were impacted in 2025’s huge RIF. UHG, UHC and Optum were doing a lot more to try to retain laid off people through redeploys. The company used to feel like they invested a lot of time and money in internal talent development to retain and train people. This used to be a great place to grow your career, learn all you could, and work with good leaders, but now it’s not.
Between the now monthly layoffs across UHG, Optum and UHC and the offshoring, hiring freezes, reopening roles after layoffs, redeployment program cuts, and expecting less people to do more work because the higher ups decided to freeze new reqs and RIF others… 🤯
@aq Was it mainly OI. Cricket at OT end.
@e1 OI was hit hard today.
@dp What is your deal against nurses? Continue to see your lame comments. Maybe you are the problem :)
@c2 Mine was "team changes" in February.
@by manager taking PTO is such a b!@tch thing to do lol
@bx just tell us you’re jealous without saying it. It’s ok lil one.
Anyone heard anything about OI and RCM div?
Hopefully it’s these useless nurses
Anything on if WellMed is in this Quality Operations Contract Performance?
I had an initial interview with a recruiter who knew we had layoffs coming Thursday. It was spoken about like it wasn’t a secret and she said they have been doing a lot of in house interviews for people who are being proactive and trying to keep employment. So yeah- there will be layoffs tmr.
@c1 Close ... not always with an HR person there. I was rifd and no hr was in the group meeting. i got a new job tho in OAS
@by its always done by 10 or 11 am. sometimes a group call with an odd meeting invite like "business update" or something stupid like that or in some cases a direct phone call. Invites sent early.
You’ll get a last minute invite for a 15 min call with your skip manager and HR, usually in the morning. This is for individual lay offs. Sometimes HR will put a bunch of people on one call if it’s a lot of people in the same department. Title of the teams meeting will be vague like “staffing updates”
@b2 OT is Optum Tech (IT)
@OP Anyone know about OptumRx??
Anyone know anything about when you would typically get a call?? I feel like I’ll be on edge all day tomorrow. I work for H&C
My manager has taken PTO tomorrow, will it be HR that calls?
@bw You must clutch onto your MBA like Gollum's precious. Just another worthless paper tiger. If leadership runs a corp into the dirt, then chainfires RIF after RIF to stop hemorrhaging money, whos the re--rd?
@bt Those "id--ts" know alot more than you about business. Looks like you are projecting being jealous of others. Enjoy being miserable.
I got a random meeting from senior leadership for first thing tomorrow. Do they usually bcc HR on these layoff calls cuz right now it’s just that one person and me.
@bb Not at all. I want all American jobs offshored to return to onshore and for American's only! Should be a crime for a C-Suite to mismanage a company so badly that they have to outsource for cost savings. Id--ts with MBA's.
@bc will any management be let go?
Anything specific regarding SICC?
Yes coming from above. I heard 120 people from SNF and IRF numbers were more than they anticipated. It will not be a good day. Praying for everyone involved.
Don’t have to name drop. Is your source grade level 28 and above?
Anticipating RIF for Pre-service but uncertain of the numbers.
Heard through the grapevine about half of SNF PSCs will be let go tomorrow.
Many tech companies are laying off 20% of their support staff as they leverage AI. If India OT suffered a big layoff would you care?
@am how will it be handled at that large of a number? The same way it has been previously?
What is OT?
@ar Optum Insight
@ap what is OI?
@ap indeed we have been, and we may get some hits tomorrow. My point was that THIS one is hitting OT and H&C the hardest.
@am Is OI not considered as prime target?
I think it is fine for a manager to help review it as long as they don't make you submit something vertatim or omit anything you want to add. Is it due before RIF day tomorrow?
@aj I just left a meeting specifically about this. I work in OI and we're were told, 100% OT to be hit heavily and H&C hit heavily. Don't know about ORx.
I need to know a percentage on how sure we are that tomorrow is the day. Like 90% sure? Still completely unknown? Morale is LOW.
@ac OH specifically H&C CT
Not sure about any other lines of business, but luckily management has been pretty transparent with us since we found out about loss of Humana contract. But, now we wait to see the effects.