#transparency

Many posts in why so many layoffs .

No mystery...look at the quality of Vz BOard and backgroubds. Then compare to Boards at AT&T and Other Dow 30.

It's so obvious the root cause of lack of strategy and execution.

Vz Board compliments of Hans DEI Noah Ark style.

I still winder how Dan claims he was ask 3X to take over from Hans.

Where was the Board sense of urgency?

The lack of honesty and transparency is on the Board.

As a result, lazy exeution strategy to layoff 16,000 and counting.

is it they actually live what they preach. And yhr honest truth is we know they won't and their leaders won't. Those who try will find themselves exiting the business.

What was that.. 12 mins of content circleje*k with no updates or results and 40 mins of questions that don’t tell us sh1t.

Basically confirmed future reductions and refused to even acknowledge the question about what quartile cost we’re in now..

Does anyone actually know what is going on? The total lack of communication or transparency makes it seem ominous.

You are going to lose your job. I didn’t say get displaced—I said lose your job.

The directive from the top is to get below 200,000 employees by year-end. Too much money was spent on displacement last year, and they cannot afford to repeat that. So this time, the strategy appears to be reducing headcount without formally displacing as many people.

You may have already noticed it. A coworker is suddenly gone. Your previously solid performance is now being documented as mistake- or behavior-ridden. Your manager suddenly moves you into work that is outside your normal scope. Expectations change. Documentation increases. If that is happening, pay attention—you may already be on the list.

The new check-in system can also be used to create the documentation needed to support termination. These processes used to be centered around a plan designed to help employees improve and keep their jobs. That does not appear to be the priority anymore when the larger objective is headcount reduction.

And AI complicates the picture. We do not yet have the clean workforce data needed to formally identify every position for displacement based on AI-related changes. Meanwhile, redeploy team does not redeploy everyone. The team works with the populations and employees it has been directed to retain.

We were honest on the employee survey about what we were experiencing, and instead of leadership seriously examining why employees feel the way they do, we were characterized as entitled.

Maybe we are entitled—to transparency. We are entitled to understand the direction of the company we work for, what is expected of us, and whether decisions about our careers are being made fairly.

Pay attention to what is happening around you, not just what is being said publicly. Document changes to your responsibilities, expectations, feedback, and performance history. Protect yourself professionally. Update your résumé. Strengthen your network. Keep your options open.

Don’t wait until the decision has already been made for you. RUN

Could someone from management please let us know what the plans are for the three GSCs? At this point, we don't care anymore lol, we just want some clarity on whether layoffs are coming and, if so, when so we can prepare accordingly.

Heard the update on GCC. A lot of questions were asked by attendees of which some were selected for response. The answers were non-answers which was not surprising. People can handle uncertainty and difficult truths much better when they are presented plainly and honestly. I just wish our leaders understood that.

Someone posted awhile back that they did successfully get their end date changed. Yesterday it seems almost everyone I know that was attempting this, received the same statement from HR stating that their end date would not be changed "due to business needs" with no further explanation. Just curious if the person that posted they did get their end date changed actually did, and how they did this, what avenue they took. When I've asked about the business need (our team is slow and having to scramble daily to find work, so I'm not seeing this business need on our team when we are over staffed) but get a generic answer-and not really an answer at all. I love how the company continues to promote the culture of "transparency", "Mission Simplify", etc....

It's the leadership. It's always been the leadership.

Look at recent performance and it's obvious. Absolutely poor leaders who only speak in PowerPoint prose and can't think beyond a bullet point. Leaders who go above and beyond to keep themselves apart from their "subjects."

DTC wasn't a bad idea. The execution was a sh-tshow. Inept supply chain. Cr-ppy tech. Marketing leadership that thinks we're a fashion company. Innovation that does... actually, not sure what Innovation does anymore. Poor people management. Lack of transparency.. look at the fact that we bury. annual survey results when they are unfavorable. Internal transfers are rarely fair. Finance/procurment.. enough said. Smh

And it all flows from the layers at the top. If EH wasn't good enough to be CEO when JD was appointed, what made him better a few years later? Same for our CMO .. did her experience really grow that much from “co-founding a minority-owned agency”. Our supply chain was so great we gave VA a bigger remit, lol… Can’t make this stuff up.

You can't cut and outsource your way to growth.

We need new leadership.

Apparently some Raytheon programs have, get this, TWO SETS of actual costs incurred under cost-type contracts: one set of #'s for the government and another set of #'s internal to Raytheon. These actuals do not remotely match and it's not due to lag-time in applying the accruals. Something to look out for as this is not a limited or one-off activity.

Has anyone noticed "groups" of people walking warehouse and yards lately? These are not management or even Pepsi employees. So much for transparency. All seems hush hush.

It isn't to get insight into ideas to improve the business and employee relations. It's about trying to figure out who is posting confidential information here. They want to know who is leaking.

Any new layoffs or news today? I feel so in the dark on whats going on as PLs are not discussing much. Our team was not impacted, but we have several who took VSP. We were also told that PHCO BH was safe for August. But I know that with so many other departments that WERE impacted, that is going to trickle down and affect us all. I keep waiting for that "transparency" that is preached about at every town hall.....

I know the rumor mill runs strong, especially since there is zero transparency. read a comment here that said 4900 layoffs were this week.

But if "4 out of 5 Centeamers who will be leaving are part of the VSP", is true - that means what, almost 25,000 overall reduction in headcount?

there's no way this is right. if so, GOOD LORD.

I find it so disturbing that there is NO communication going on about who has been let go, what the more global impact is going to be. The layoffs WILL affect every team at Centene in one way or another. My team had several take VSP but no lay offs (this time or so far)....they haven't even publicly said who on our team would be leaving by VSP. Absolutely zero communication from manager and above on any impact. I mean, we all know things will change across the board for folks still here....yet it feels so hush hush....meanwhile the VSP folks sit and wait until late next year to actually leave......assuming Centene is still around to pay folks out by then I guess......But lets keep preaching about that transparency......

Oracle is following hidden practice of retaining the H1b's and hiring H1b's always and getting rid of Locals.

Either they should layoff H1b's this time more and disclose the numbers

or

They should hire only US and not H1b's

Look at people are getting promoted, first of all they don't make it public, most of them are not at all competent.

So apparently we’re being told our activity is being tracked… but no one can tell us what activity they’ve tracking yet. 😂

Like… what exactly are you monitoring? Keyboard activity? Teams status? Logins? Time in applications? Mouse movement? Because I’M WORKING LOL.

“We’ll let you know soon what’s being tracked” is such a wild thing to tell employees. What the f&$% are we doing here?! 😂

What departments had some RIFs today? And how many? If anyone happens to know because no one is really being transparent in all this. Sad for the ones who were told today but happy for them that they get to move on and have some closure.

The NJ market is such a mess. The lack of effective leadership is evident, and there is very little transparency. The culture can be incredibly cliquey, and some teams are unnecessarily difficult to work with. There seems to be very little consistency or logical direction, and overall the environment has become extremely frustrating.

In reading all of the forum posts on Centene lay-offs, the one common denominator is how the lack of information, misinformation and blatant lies has systematically destroyed the morale of almost every employee who has/or currently worked there! The level of stress the employees have had to endure seems unnecessary and borderline cruel. So much for a CEO that preaches transparency and doing the right thing.

This isn’t a layoff post, but it’s a precursor. Word is finally leaking out that Senior Managers are getting individual reports on employees… how active they are, and they’re also able to select platforms by seal ID how much time every employee is spending in each program. What they promised wouldn’t happen is here. Word is leaking out all over corporate sectors and mid managers are warning ppl.

It made it 3 hours before it got deleted lol

I got a screen shot. Savage and hilarious 😂

Could you please spell out your acronyms in the first post? Just because your random letters mean something to you, it means nothing to the rest of us. I'm in Core (aka the ones that actually matter).

When you talk about some random unit being sold or whatever, I don't know what you're talking about because it's literally the first time I hear about it. I've only been here for ~5ish years; I don't know the whole history

Anyone else no longer able to see the Fannie Mae “bowls” on Fishbowl and Glassdoor? It now says they don’t exist. They were active prior to 10 am yesterday.

The lifting of consent order on Citibank by the OCC and the Federal Reserve this year is not quite a sure thing.

That "90%" complete line from the C suite is more about checking the boxes and implementing controls, not actually achieving clean data.

Sarah or anyone from her team, please provide clarification on what is happening? You preach transparency, but as you can see from this Forum, employees are feeling confused, uncertain and obviously need answers and what is happening to make good decisions about their future with Centene. PLEASE, provide more answers to your employees!

Many biopharmaceutical companies are mishandling workforce reductions in 2026, leading to negative employee experiences. Stories shared with BioSpace reveal instances of impersonal Zoom calls, awkward airport meetings, and layoffs during maternity leave. Some companies also failed to be transparent about outsourcing roles to contract research organizations. The article emphasizes that the manner in which layoffs are communicated significantly impacts employee perception.

https://www.biospace.com/job-trends/not-so-special-delivery-when-biopharmas-fumble-layoff-news

Their answers to questions were so bad. They are so disingenuous. There feels like there is so much more of a push to do more work and their answers are just around that they do so much research on pay, bonuses are good, etc.

We don’t buy it. Why even act like you are being transparent when your answers are so bad.

https://www.outlookbusiness.com/corporate/cognizant-wins-multi-year-centene-deal-that-could-touch-1-billion

I find it very interesting that they are “cutting costs” but just executed a massive contract with an AI company.

So much for transparency 😒

As a result of all this bs and the way its been handled. I truely feel those of us left standing will be quite quitters as many of our teams were already understaffed and drowning in back logged work with NO expectations of receiving additional support only bs promises of relief never to come. I regret not taking the VSP option at least I could have started to heal from the decades of mental trauma this company has put me and others through.

Pssst, at this point, some important metrics objectively stale. Update your shizz.

Q2 Earnings: 25.885 million members.

Careers page and LinkedIn job postings: “You could be the one who changes everything for our 28 million members.”

That’s a 2 million member overstatement.

The careers site and job reqs appear to have adopted the corporate communications playbook: delay, then revise.

Are we still at an MCO Or has this turned into fast paced thriller featuring hidden identities, strange disappearances, dark secrets and shocking plot twists reminiscent of Harlan Coben's Netflix series?
The information is much better hidden and protected then Dr. Fauci's diary.

This is so exhausting and draining.

People keep getting promoted and more leaders are added yet we can't consistently deliver products. Who is in charge of supply chain? How about we invest in some leadership there? How many reps have lined up evaluations or Go Live dates only to find out product X is on back-order? Marketing (who I'm sure would rather be doing actual marketing) sends out a laundry list of all the skus that aren't available with zero transparency as to why, vague/moving target recovery dates and substitute lists that are also on backorder. Gain/keep business is a challenge when 1/3 of my time is spent trying to find subs for procurement.

Today they posted a link to the town hall recording. I missed the event so I was looking forward to watching.
Watched the entire recording but it was only 38 minutes long for an hour long call!
They deleted the Q&A!!!!
Talk about a lack of trust that I will ever have that they will accurately provide recordings.
Lack of ethics to edit the town hall.

What do you think is going to happen?

With a company that is so anti employee, with literally NO regard for tenure, loyalty, performance...should we expect any transparency at all?

Managers are complicit basically just trying to assure their salary continues.

Does Dell need to be investigated for violations in their termination process?

Companies are increasingly rehiring employees after AI-driven layoffs, a trend dubbed the "AI boomerang." This phenomenon highlights a potential shortcut in cost-cutting measures that overlooks the value of experienced staff. Experts advise a more thorough evaluation before eliminating roles, considering task automation and the loss of institutional knowledge. Transparency and empathetic departures are crucial for rebuilding trust and encouraging former employees to return. Ultimately, a people-first strategy is essential for navigating AI integration without costly corrections.

https://hrexecutive.com/fords-rehire-wave-has-hr-leaders-rethinking-how-ai-layoffs-get-decided/

We keep getting vague emails about stuff like strategic alignment and zero details about layoffs, budgets, or direction. Basically, anything that truly matters. We're at the point where the grapevine is more reliable than any official channel. That's not a management style, that's damage control.

This feels like a textbook example of people believing their own narrative. Instead of meaningful transparency or honest discussion, it’s filled with self-congratulation and carefully crafted talking points.

There’s very little substantive information here. It’s just selective framing, unsupported claims, and messaging that doesn’t align with what many people are actually experiencing. Rather than acknowledging legitimate concerns or difficult realities, the focus seems to be on celebrating themselves and controlling the narrative.

Real leadership is measured by results and accountability, not by how enthusiastically you praise your own performance. At some point, the applause for yourselves has to give way to honest conversations backed by facts.

Me to Claude: should all these people lose their jobs?

Claude: “Thanks for the question. It would appear so.”