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Laid off - Optum Technology / Innovation, Research, Development

I was laid off on Tuesday morning and work at Optum Technology in Innovation, Research, Development. I am not sure how many were let go but at least twenty. From what I understand no formal announcement has gone out yet and it was a variety of people. I had a good performance review, and heard it was not performance based, but at some point a manager has to decide who should go.

My understanding is we were about 12m short so had to recover and there has also been a huge reorganization. It was very poorly handled and morale is very low there now with many people looking for positions elsewhere as a result. We were offered a severance package and encouraged to apply internally for other positions.

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It looks like a number of IRD’ers learned a lesson in 2017 and are beginning to depart voluntarily before the next set of cuts occur in IRD. By my count, 17 have left over the past two months including two VPs and three Directors. No doubt more departures are to come as IRD becomes less of an innovation center and more of a project management group, and the next reorganization tries to stem the flow.

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Thank you!

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Post ID: @svqv+O9b8SMq

What city and state ?

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Post ID: @1qfg+O9b8SMq

All the best - I hope you bounce back very quickly

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Post ID: @zzz+O9b8SMq

Really sorry to hear that, wish you all the luck for teh future.

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