We must return to the office October 20 and will have our badge swipes counted to ensure we show up there 4 days per week. We do not have our own cube space but we reserve one every 30 days. Looking for a new job which is just what they had hoped for.
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@14n 3 years ago, I was told I had to be in office 3 days per week. My boss who lived in another state told me to just go in and swipe and then go home since no one else from my team lived in my state. I realize that may not be feasible for some, but lucky for me I lived 10 minutes away from the office. And I got laid off in November 2024 after 33 years!
They are reporting on and reviewing badge swipes. If you don’t meet the minimum average days your leader will be asked to escalate. They are trying to push people out.
@jt You must be the guy who created a post calling everyone trolls and liars and now deleted it after you received the email. 😂😂
I received an email as a people leader and it said they would be sending out the email about it today but that we needed to give our teams a heads up by last Friday, that’s why word has gotten out but you may not have heard yet. October 20th return date. 4 days per week. MN and DC, 30 min avg drive time from the office have to return. Some on my team impacted, some not.
@aq I am also a UHC employee and was not told this.
and thats how i know none of you work for UHG because you are also posting in cigna and other company board. you are trolls making up fake sh-t
Interesting to see this same pattern of back to office at UHC. Check out threads from other health plans. Cigna did a massive back to office dubbed “the future of work’”. And a bunch of employees quit which is what they wanted. They enforced it for like a year and now they are sending some of those office people back home again. It is just a means to cut back on work force before they start further job eliminations. Cigna did and is still doing job eliminations as well as early retirement packages. United will likely be doing this next. Same thing happened at Aetna prior to the CVS acquisition. We are all pawns in their corporate game. So glad to be done with all of them now.
@gx doubtful
In a way it feels like a punishment to those in DC and Minnesota near offices....especially if the rest of your team can stay remote because they don't live in that area. My UHC office (not in either of those states) is about 65 miles away and of us 10 team members only one would live in a 30 min drive frame. If they only made her go in that would be insane.
@es big girl pants you mf
MN and DC for now. Expect it to expand to many more states/offices by the end of the year.
Bless your heart, good luck!
Drive 60 miles a day to UHG office in EP, sit in windowless huddle rooms (confidential info on all my calls so I cannot be in cubes). Boss is in NYC, team along East Coast.
No dedicated offices or cubes either? What a joke.
They fired the garbage collectors/janitors in July, so the floors smell like a landfill by Thursday.
This place has a penny-wise cheapskate office for a company masquerading as an F10.
nobody cares op put on your big boy pants or shut up
Sounds like for MN and DC only. That's a relief if you aren't in those areas.
Do you live within 30 minutes of the MN office? It is true. I was told today and saw the letter sent to my manager.
@aj only MN and DC. If you are within 30-minute commute. All GL, 31 and up went back in June.
I've remained an in-office employee. Everyone in the office recently got new multi-function badges that replaced the old photo ID badge and the building key/pass. We were not initially informed of this, so they used older photographs they had in the system. The new badges get us into the building, allow us to pass through secure doors, unlock the printers, and have our photos.
Talking with our security, he said messages were going out to all local employees that were in the system as hybrid.
Out local sales team was told they had to come in 4 days a week about a month ago, but in practice there isn't strict adherence to this. Building staff have also went around recently taking notes about open cubicles and what they may need. In the past few weeks, I've seen new faces temporarily working out of unassigned cubes.
I’m at UHC and my boss confirmed this today as well. They did not mention 4 days a week or any day requirement but just said RTO is happening and anyone within 30 min drive of office will be required to go in.
Is this for UHC employees or just OPTUM employees? Is RTO for everyone or just certain states? How do they determine who has to RTO and who don't. Im thinking this is more of a rumor than anything.
Let me tell you a secret....no one is coming in 4 days a week.