This is layoff #3 in we'll say 7 months. Is this our new normal? If it is, what is the viability of this department? I know that only upper dept management might know these answers. Thinking out loud.
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Layoffs are the wave of the future. Look AI (Artificial Intelligence) is coming. Humans will be replaced by machines anything to save a buck or 2. You go to McDonald and see it. You go to Walmart and self check out. They say it is for our convenience but sadly it's for the corporations convenience. I realize this and I decided to go back to floor nursing. I work for the hospital I use to be a nurse at. You can look at this webiste and see many other companies laying off. It is apart of the future and you just can't stay stagnate. Jobs get shipped overseas. Humans get replaced by machines and this is it! So, like yeah layoffs are the wave of the future. That is just my take on things. Look up AI and see what the future holds. The days of being a Mail Clerk in a corporation and being the CEO today is unheard of. Don't mean to be a downer but you got to realize our world is changing.
We work for short-sighted idiots
http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu/article/how-layoffs-cost-companies/
Copied my post from CHE thread. Relevant.
I believe the direction we are headed is this. The evidence and behaviors so far support this, but please chime in if you have another theory. I think if we put our minds together we can figure out the master plan.
After job searching it is clear the industry trend is to have essentially HS grads doing a role called "care coordinator." Then you have the next level called "case manager" or "clinical...." Those are your licensed staff. The jobs at the bachelor level are non-existent and that's where we are headed based on the evidence. I have not seen any CHE type positions period because I probably would have applied. Soooo phase out PHC's, CHE --and non-licensed master HCMSS if they didn't already. Expand HCMSS & HCM role into care management and everyone is responsible for their own mbr education. Many companies require cate managers to live in the state of their members to be knowledgable aboit local resources and many are field based positions. For low interventions maybe a small staff of high school grads. But most of that workk is being handled by the IVR systems even now.
For those of us who are unlicensed, it seems to be. Maybe 2.0 will be different ... yeah, okay, not holding my breath. I've got a cpl of interviews lined up and can't wait to be done.