There are 8000 employees worldwide in the field including managers.
3000 will go through a tough time here soon.
It’s sad and disappointing.At this time, I am safe but for how long?
It’s not easy to say do something about your situation when you have kids and a family. Step out on faith hoping the grass is greener.
I am very happy to have a job, that’s why I stay.
I do my best and pray that they find a reason to fire me.
Now that’s sad too.
@RVQnk47-1inr I agreed with you up until you indicated that the proximity people cut were dead weight. These decisions were made by Senior Leadership and were based on geography - yes, you heard me - based on where they live. No other factor was used. Let this sink in. A lot of top performers lost their job because they lived in the wrong place & were not given any option. The converse side of this is that a number of worthless people kept their job through luck of geography. If I were in another department I would reflect on this and be very scared. Job performance and customer service mean nothing to this bunch running things. When they come for you, what criteria will they use to make a decision? Perhaps they will have you guess a number between one and ten. Maybe they will have you color a picture and the first crayon used will decide your fate. Don't count on a school-yard pick because lower level management has been blind-sided
and has no input in the process.
I truly do wish that they had gone for the dead weight and weeded out the under-performers and people who won't work on a team, then this process would make some sense. Right now, all I know is that there are people at senior levels making f****d up decisions and they will not stop at Proximity when there is so much more they can focus on. Be afraid, be very afraid!
3000 layoffs announced last week. 200 jobs open for those 3000, of which 90 will be mandatory relocation with no financial support. All I can say is , not enough folks quit AND it looks as if they used a metric to get rid of dead weight, IMO.
The reason why there are job postings even though the field is going down is that staffing decisions were made on a geographic basis, not on a job performance basis. If there was a perceived need for a worker in a location that no one lived in, that position was posted, even though the company may have let some people go in a near-by location. One example is Niagara Falls, NY. No one currently working for the company lives there and the company wants an adjuster there. A position has been posted for that area, never mind the fact that there are employees in the greater Buffalo area (less than 30 minutes away) that have been let go.
I work at Proggressive, my supervisor told me last week we are going to have a transition as well, I was checking into State Farm for opportunities looks like they are doing the same. Looks like proximity is a thing of the past. He said the impact was going to be substantial.
Insurance industry changing faster than I thought.
Is this post about claims proximity workers? Or just proximity workers in general? I’m trying to understand why Claims proximity workers were given a QTD last week, yet 120 openings were posted yesterday.
its State Farm, you get what you deserve.
Proximity workers... those who’s job is out in the field. They don’t report to an office, they work remotely.
What group was this meeting for?