I was hired about two years ago so I only know the cultural under this CEO and CEO leadership. Honest question for those who have been here for a decade or so - how does this culture compare to prior CEOs and leadership team? Better? worse? If different, then how?
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@kf they were to help people with childcare expenses because you were working from home and needed someone to watch your kids. Extra cash to buy new clothes if you gained weight during the pandemic. Tongue in cheek but it was part of the language Money to help because maybe a spouse was laid off that year. Just to let employees know that the company cared. Also a bonus if you chose to be vaccinated against COVID. It
was voluntary. The company did not require employees to be vaccinated. But those that decided to do it got a $500 bonus.
ever since ACA, things have been going down hill. Year after year, hcsc is becoming more like a big nameless corporation. I guess things dont last forever, probably on the decline.
@13k Stop fat shaming people.
@zb thank you for your condescending attitude. You are aware that you cannot edit posts? So perhaps a fat finger typed the wrong word but hey- you do you.
@z5 she was. But both are smarter than the current bozos.
"thing," "think," and "then" in those last 3 posts triggered me. WELL DONE!
I just want to make one think clear, PS was smarter then PHH.
@tw I thing there are a lot of people smarter than PHH. I also thing a lot of people could have done a better job of running the company.
@pq let me guess- you thing you are smarter than PHH?
SOS, only the names have changed.
@pj sounds like racist sh-t to me
@hn PHH? If you’re not joking about PHH being capable with talent, then you’re being unintentionally funny.
Use your eyes and context clues.
What is woke politics about Maurice!?
@kf it was an attempt to retain their workforce at a time when many companies were offering generous sign on bonuses and highly competitive salaries.
@jc okay Maurice
@kf exactly! For being on the HCSC team. JUst because.
@jc wow...just wow...so much to pick apart here. So, the 500 and 1000 dollar bonuses were for what?
It’s funny how when individuals were getting paid to stay at home. When individuals were given 500 and 1000 bonus just because. When checks hit the payroll and no layoffs in 5 years. And now a 500 person layoff and a man ask you to come to work that this is the worst that it has ever been. Come on people, it’s time to tighten up and whether the healthcare storm. There is a lot of fat on the HCSC meat. Some many Payor’s have laid off 10%+ of their workforce..
@fj 100% they canned Paula because she would not play the board’s games. She was soooo smart. We need a leader like her, or Pat, or Ray. Qualified, capable, personable and with talent. But that won’t happen. We are too busy with “dynamic and kinetic “ ads and trying to fit with woke Chicago politics.
15ish years in. This is the worst it's ever been. I remember 2015/2016 being rough too, but looking back in it now, it at least felt like there was a bit more transparency from leadership than there is now. Plus, back then, it felt more like our direct leadership was "on our side". Now, it feels like they've become just as jaded and cynical as the rest of us.
Definitely worst. Before, as an employee, I had a sense of belonging. We were true to our mission, yes, as a company our goal is to make profit, but at least I'm the past we sort of masked that. Probably they fired Paula Steiner because she was carrying the company's mission, standing by our members in sickness and in health. Now we barely even talk about that. Executives are only greedy monsters that only think about themselves. Most of our high level executives are very incompetent that only live in an ivory tower. They barely talk to you and if you cross paths with them in an elevator they look down to you as if you are an inferior being and pretend to be busy on their phones.
@d1 "just a job" tells you everything about you.
The culture is trash. Fake. A circus.
@a8 the interesting thing- these buffoons would have been canned long ago by a for profit company.
@cz current leadership thinks we are all overpaid cattle. They don’t want to pay our salary or benefits- unless you are one of their incompetent buddies that they promote to their level of incompetence
@d1 you are being naive if you think current leadership is better… they have zero business skills, zero people skills, are self centered, and arrogant. And care zero about members or employees.
Almost 11 years in Illinois.
My then colleagues were much more difficult pre-Maurice. really pre-COVID, with multiple probably being clinical psychopaths or sociopaths. Just terrible people.
The culture of today, at least in my team, has certainly improved and life is much less stressful.
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the company had massive layoffs in 2016, albeit with generous VSPs for some, so the culture didn't feel all that great during the bloodbath.
That said, it's just a job in a big company. There never was any real culture in the first place no matter what was said during Paula/Maurice's communications and town halls.
It's just a job.
@OP All comments are spot on. There was a shared feeling of the mission of making care available to as many people as possible. Culture-wise, Ray McCaskey would always say hello and actually sit at a lunch table with people he didn’t always know. Can anyone imagine the current leadership doing that?
@OP also the likes of Arun and Stephen H who can barely raise their heads from Their phones to say hello. God forbid they have to interact with the peasants.
Such a difference when there was genuine appreciation from the CEO for the work that you talked about… esp when they met you in the elevator or in the fitness center.
@OP incredibly different...old person...3 decades...so, Im not worried really, but won't post with my name because I still want my pension and continued other benefits from a long tenured person. I started before the merger with TX...back in the old building when folks smoked in the office...what started as a truly problem solving healthcare company morphed. I remember the very first billion...ugh...reminiscing. back to the point and answer to your question, no the current CEO, who is also Chairman of the Board? Does not compare even remotely with former CEOs.
Easy answer: Worse. The CEO culture now is much more in line with for-profit companies than ever before. When I was hired, and for several CEOs after, they acted like they believed the mission to stand with our members in sickness and in health. That went away.