Any idea on if there is more to come? I Work in Dental networks and know of several in our org who were terminated last week including Individual contributors and management. Rumor is our management had no idea these layoffs were coming/ who was going to get laid off. Hard to believe that. But has anyone heard that there could be more to come this next week? Super frustrating that our management did not announce any layoffs happening this Friday after several happened on Thursday. Makes me feel like they know there is more to come.
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Specialty Benefits is a disaster. The recruiting networks are understaffed and gaslighting clients. One of the leaders in PL was finally forced to retire earlier this year - she was hateful and destructive. The new leadership has no clue how to run this book of business. Reporting teams are challenged in delivering data required by contract/law.
Clients should log on to this site so they understand what is really happening at UHC. I can't leave soon enough.
United Health Group always does layoffs on Thursdays, never Fridays. They have a belief that it is the best day of the week in terms of employees coping and gives the employees some time to cool off during the weekend (presumably when most people would usually hit the anger stage of the seven stages of grief).
Beckers has run some information about Optum layoffs, but they really don’t have much to report. United always sticks to a very brief, simple statement throughout the entire UHG enterprise and never comments further. If no one knows the magnitude of the layoffs or any real reasons why, it’s hard to write a compelling story about it so media coverage (by design) would be limited.
They also deliberately keep people in the dark about who was affected. Only Managers releasing their own people know who is impacted on their team. The only other way to determine who was impacted (other than gossip) is to start looking up employees (who you’ve worked with) in the UHG employee directory. If the employee is newly missing, they were likely impacted.
Agree......let us get media to report.
Layoffs continually happen off and on throughout all of UHG. It is just the way it is. Other corporations as well. CVS let 5000 go this past week. The media isn’t ignoring it, it is how business works. We are a fortune 6 company for a reason.
I don’t know what is coming lay-off wise.
I do know that management has no say on most of the cuts. I know of a CEO who was called and told they were cutting certain employees with no input given. I also know a different ceo was given a dollar figure and told to cut staff with salaries equaling that dollar amount.
Management isn’t sharing because they don’t even know. I was cut and a CEO asked for me in a meeting a month later having NO idea I was gone. UHC’s strategy is literally not communicating who/how many were laid off. It’s been like that at least a year. Management can’t share because they only know who if that employee is in their reporting structure.
I think the question we need to ask is why is the media ignoring this?