Please explain an actual reason to work for this company besides a paycheck? PTO and healthcare is offered at most jobs for the same rate, same holidays off and more if not the same amount of PTO and paid sick days. So why should people be loyal?... — read more
Relocation is not an option
Who would spend that much money and energy, uproot their entire family, leave jobs, commitments, and social circles, all for a position that could disappear six months later? Seriously? The age of job security and real career growth that once... — read more
You don’t gotta go to work work work
I find it funny there are a lot of post on this forum when it’s working hours. Hardly ever any posted outside of that.
Dense
I don’t understand how any of you would comply with such an outrageous request. I am not going to sell my house to move to be closer to an office. I am hours away from any real office. This job isn’t that important to me. It never will be. And I... — read more
An Open Letter To Execs
An Open Letter to Executives Forcing Return-to-Office I was hired under the clear promise of being a full-time telecommuter. I delivered as a high performer, year after year, proving remote work was not a compromise but a strength. I built my life —... — read more
Merit and RRP Funding
Can anyone share the timing on when merit and RRP funding is decided and when funding levels get communicated down the chain of command? Or maybe there will be no communication because there won't be any funding this year?
70-30 Offshore Onshore to be enforced by Jan 30
All software and IT teams who are more contractually required to be US based will be required to be at 70 pct offshore. No rehired in US until achieved and R required otherwise.
AI approval letters?
Got a very angry provider call stating they got an approval letter for a member with wrong information, like Dx Code, several kids spellings and wrong service dates. Asked manager who confirmed they started to send out AI letters upon approval.
Severance pay chat
There usednto be an actual chart and I can't see to find it to see by grade, and years of service whatbthe amount of weeks your would get. Does anyone know where it is?
Fear Mongering
Stop letting the supervisors and managers in here fear you into not doing the survey, or giving false good scores. The systems registers if you took it but the answers are anonymous. Unless you wrote out very specific details or a situation and drop... — read more
Alorica
Is a staffing website that has a few seasonal Optum jobs available for remote. I didn’t know they did a seasonal thing now.
RTO hours
Has anyone heard anything about the hours we need to be in office for RTO? Is there a dashboard with hours?
New CIO announcement?
Gonna be hard to find someone as competent as Sandip, he was was a mighty little elf. Maybe next hire can do a 200x
EXI Survey
You have one piece of honest feedback or advice for upper management at Optum that you didn’t feel comfortable including in your EXI survey because who knows how anonymous those really are, and go:
Here comes AI… bye bye jobs. UHG sure spent a lot of money for this guy to come on board
https://www.beckerspayer.com/executive-moves/unitedhealth-group-taps-ai-chief/
Went through several healthcare companies
They’re all terrible enterprises that only care about the bottom line, no matter the cost to clients or employees. But Optum has been, hands down, the most exhausting, mentally, physically, and emotionally. The mix of daily toxicity and uncertainty... — read more
Better ways to save money than layoffs
Minnesota is no longer the state it was. Watch the documentary “A precarious state MN” on YouTube. Why not move corporate headquarters out of Minnesota to a more tax friendly state? Save on corporate taxes, vs laying off workers . Employee... — read more
RTO - OSHA compliance considered ?
My understanding of the RTO is that there is a signup to reserve an office/cubicle and it's based on availability. The cubicle can be reserved for up to 30 days. Obviously this is not a long term situation and would create quite a bit of work for... — read more
Back To Basics
What info does anyone have regarding RIFs in the upcoming months?
Attrition
Nice to see some sleep token fans here who learned a new word. When do we start protesting??
Take pictures if you RTO
Those of you saying it is awful and filthy please snap pictures of it there are a lot of us documenting what the company is doing, their failed business practices, wanting to offshore American healthcare needs overseas to a country that is known to... — read more
RTO Reality
A survey of 1,500 US managers found that 25% of C-suite leaders admitted using return-to-office (RTO) mandates to prompt resignations, while 20% of HR professionals said their policies were intended to make staff leave. Nearly 40% of managers said... — read more
Was there a RTO ANNOUNCEMENT?
I am a rehire and not updated in the system yet. Can someone confirm?
Not Constructive Discharge, but Discrimination
Something to consider - What this company is doing raises some serious red flags under employment law. When an employer sets rules that only apply to certain groups of employees—for example, requiring people who live within 30 miles of the office to... — read more
No point worrying about all the implications of RTO
It’s here to make you leave. And the conditions will only get tougher and harder to meet over time. It’s not that leadership doesn’t care about the difficulties RTO creates, they’re actively trying to make people fed up enough to quit, or set them up... — read more
Is anyone else struggling w/ RTO orders?
I have been having trouble sleeping and waking up at 3am every morning in with severe anxiety. Is anyone else struggling with this work order? I’m not sure if it’s the imminent disruption to my daily life, having to find and pay for before/after... — read more
Janitors laid off too?
Anyone else who has been required to come in lately notice how nasty the work spaces have gotten? In building 2 the break room is filled with dishes covered in days old food and the fridge smells like mold. Desks are all strewn with trash and none... — read more
Corporate influence
It seems corporate for UHG/Optum frequent these pages and nudges the website to get things deleted/ removed. Which further proves how bad this company is. However, screen shots of the replies that reflect how upper level management and normal... — read more
Voluntary Severance Package?
I commonly hear about people getting a voluntary severance package as opposed to laying people off. What incentives does that package include to get people to leave? Also what criteria do they use for offering one to employees. I’ve been here for... — read more
TrumpRx
Gotta be a play for the Trump plan to take over the PBM industry: Use his office to squeeze pharma companies with threat of tariffs to get prices down PBM reform that breaks up health insurers from owning PBMs Launch his own new private wholesale... — read more
Hello fellow colleague
I have been reading every post and comment that appears so far, and just super curious to know how some of you are so headstrong in the belief that the remote workers are only working 2 hours but getting paid for 8. If you’re not a supervisor or a... — read more
Im so tired
I have been with this company for five years and waited so long to get into Navi because they actually use to be really selective with who they hire: getting bought out by Optum who in turn got bought out by UHC has been a horrible down spiral and... — read more
Just being silly
Profit margins above human lives. Policies written, lives disposed, They stamp it cold If you lack compassion you no longer belong in healthcare. For those who wish to make a change and got an order to RTO maybe blast a song off YouTube. The Dusty... — read more
Refusing to do RTO?
For those that have a RTO order and continued to WFH, have you faced any consequences?
When is the next OI layoff?
Sick of constantly getting edged by this site with no payoff.
RTM - Return to Moon - it’s true!! 4 days a week on the Moon starting October 21
Yea that’s right folks, we are returning to the moon. Damn. /s RTO was apparently a big honeypot here or at best an outright lie
Monday and another week of ESRO bringing development to its knees.
Whatever veep or c-suite mo--n enabled this team should start looking for a new job.