Like clockwork it's October they are 'functionally eliminating' another training role. Program Owners are on the chopping block today. Forcing a large number of people to all jockey for the same limited roles they are 'replacing' it with. When you spend billions on AI you've got to make up that money somewhere. This company hasn't been the same since David Joyner ascended and started bowing to stake holders as kings
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What's particularly concerning is the timing of all of this. Now we're also seeing reports that CVS is exploring splitting its retail pharmacy and insurance businesses into separate companies. When you put that alongside the ongoing workforce reductions, restructuring, and aggressive investment in AI, it raises bigger questions about the company's long-term direction.
This feels like more than another round of cost-cutting. It looks like a fundamental shift in how CVS intends to operate, organize its businesses, and allocate its resources. Unfortunately, employees seem to be bearing much of the uncertainty and consequences.
Leadership continues to talk about innovation and the future, but what does that future look like for the people who helped build the organization? You can't continually restructure, eliminate institutional knowledge, and expect employees to remain confident in the company's direction.
On an L&D call right now. Leadership spoke for 20 minutes. A whole lot of words were used. I doubt that anyone knows what was said.
Some of the chat comments and questions are great. 🤣🤣🤣
I lost many friends and team members to this one. They did the same last year. I cant say im surprised. In the HR and L&D town halls, they danced around the layoff question like politicians. All they talked about was AI and how they will still need people to work with AI. A bunch of sc-mbags who dont have an honest bone in their body.
@ef samsies
Amen. Keep the door open, I’ll be right behind you.
107 working days for me until I get to say goodbye to this nonsense. No, I was not laid off.
Everyone should be afraid of the rapid movement towards AI.
Got notified that the FTC roles have been impacted and was notified I’ll be laid off at the end of the year
I just need two more years.
Shocking. Truly. Said no one who's been paying attention for the last three years.
When training moved from the classroom to web-based modules, the writing was on the wall for L&D. The only question was how long the runway would be. AI just shortened it to about five minutes. A full, polished, SCORM-ready course that used to take a team a quarter to scope, storyboard, build, and push through three rounds of stakeholder review can now be generated, branded, and shipped before the kickoff meeting would have ended. Leadership can do that math, and they are doing it.
Let's also be honest about the "bloat" nobody wants to say out loud. Layers of coordinators, reviewers, and process owners whose main deliverable was managing the timeline of the deliverable. That model was always going to struggle once the work itself got automated.
And before anyone frames this as a company-specific problem, it isn't. Microsoft has cut thousands this year alone, and tech layoffs are past 185,000 for 2026 so far, with AI cited as a driver across multiple companies. This is the current operating environment across sectors, not a one-off restructuring.
The uncomfortable takeaway: nobody should feel safe in their role right now, and "we've always needed this function" is no longer a strategy. Personally, I'm starting to think I shouldn't have wasted my time and money on an L&D degree. Lesson learned!
We were told there will be 10 new roles that will report up to the VPs on program strategy, but 20 of us on our team are being eliminated. What a thanks after we’ve already had to do the job of 3 people the last year after they laid off all of those with a PO II title. Plus, the production crew has been busy with classroom of the future aka AI so they haven’t been able to do development. The POs have had to develop as well.
This is no different than any other company in this country or even on planet earth. If you don’t like where you work, remember it’s at-will but nothing is going to change whether you work for CVS or any other big company.