I have put together a list of red flags to Be on the look out for potential layoffs to come. Please add any additional items not listed.
Mandatory trainings that require you to enter your name first and last and even home address in the end. This is usually completely discrete to send you severance agreement prior to telling you they are going to lay you off. Packets come after your notified. It makes it easier on their bookkeepers. You take a training that you think matters, but it’s just to get your info for severance all in order.
Meetings with other leaders and or subject matter experts to get more insight from you. This sometimes has been used as a discrete way to evaluate you individually or with a group to see who they keep and who they execute.
The workload pulling up to beyond impossible. Overworked and burned out completely to the point of quitting. That’s how it is now. That saves Humana on severance and unemployment costs and as illegal as it maybe they will do it. I feel it now. If you leave you will not get unemployment and severance.
Pressure from your leader about performance and stats, etc. They will show you how bad you are whether your bad or not prior to layoff.
Speaking with members that just don’t sound like members. You ever talk to someone with a voice changer via the phone. Listen on you tube and listen to your members.
Be prepared and be ready. This is a cut throat business that cares about return on investment and satisfying stock holders. They don’t care about employees. New management speaks about poor execution of old management. All the costs they have created from what has been provided in the past to employees . That’s changing. Look at raises at start of the year. Look at benefits to employees. They are cutting us out. Protect yourself in these ways. Make sure your getting your money in retirement, overtime, and all your Time calculates to the second. Don’t trust their systems because that’s for the bottom line not for employees protection.
Protect yourself throughout this process. When management shifts again in the future you know more big changes will come. Eventually William Fleming and others, will be like the other leaders gone. He’s just a man for this phase. He will remove and eliminate without heart and his team will follow in his foot steps. He fits the soul for the task.l at hand. Maybe they will offer him Early retirement soon. Protect yourself. They won’t protect you. You are a data collector. More data equals more understanding of bottom line now and future.
What a great story this will all eventually make for the center of Medicare services. Protect yourself.