It certainly feels like it to me.

Some of the leadership in town halls, they don’t even pretend to fake it. Last Town hall, some of them even started blaming AGI as a hoax and here I thought that we are the champion of AI and AGI with $2 billion spent. ROI will bite us badly watch... — read more 

Next week is Culture Week, everyone! Get ready for the toxic leaders of one of the world's most contemptible, companies to gaslight their employees into thinking we have a culture that goes beyond mistreating people, devaluing them and underpaying... — read more 

...Don't ask how many of our promo team survived the latest RIF.

Anyone know if they are expanding RTO still? Has anyone been able to get an exception?

Any CHC people still here or has all been laid off?

2 regions East and West. GOOD LUCK 👍

People I respected, and people who seemed happy until a few years ago. It tells you a lot about how much this place has changed in just a few short years. Even I'm starting to look at my options, and I've been at Optum for more than fifteen years... — read more 

Anyone dealing with Indian offshore manager and .not including you in meetings and chats? My director is now offshore and she has all the meetings during India times which is after midnight for me. I am not even on the invites, no communication... — read more 

I noticed lately they are hiring a lot of young females in AI/ML/Data science/Data engineering type roles. I noticed that they don't anything. They use AI and one junk analysis a day. They are gone by 4 pm because..kids, School pickup or whatever... — read more 

Question for HouseCalls APCs — how’s everyone’s schedule looking for August and September? Curious if others are noticing a pattern of unusually few visits scheduled starting mid-August onward.

Why do some announce they are retiring but you can tell it seems forced? Does upper leadership tell these people they are being laid off and then lie to everyone about the real reason? I have seen this in at least 4 people in the last year. At first... — read more 

Use this thread for the layoffs on July 30th

Since it's now been confirmed, let's track red October info here. Please share what you hear from senior Dr+. Stay strong!

This sounds more like regular surgical cuts that always happen than a major round.

Are there more lay offs coming tomorrow!

Working for optum is so boring and mundane even being in a role that's supposed to require compentecy HA. Can someone from HR locate me via vpn and put me off the next layoff pleaseeeeeeeeee. I hate my life here ! There's a ton of people stressed... — read more 

Quick question. We are salary employees, we have recently been required to work holidays with only a 15% diff, if the holiday fall on the weekend. If it falls during the week we get no additional money. Also we are required to stay late, people are... — read more 

I've been trying to find something new for months. I've got plenty of experience, but I can't get a single interview. Is age really that big of a factor? I'm 54.

Any one want to share about internally moving to a lateral position or higher? How is the process to tell the current manager that you want to move elsewhere ?

Entire enterprise IT stack for Optum tech down from 10PM to 4AM 100% outage across all cloud providers and regions. Not the first time this has happened. Not the second, or third either. The only way teams got out of it was by completely disabling... — read more 

Just received an invite to a team meeting for H&CC in my region for next month which is very rare, could this be something we are all dreading:/

Any updates on RCM? Wasn’t there for leadership meeting today and curious what was spoken about

Why is the Women Lead session being lead by a Man? He rewords what she says and does most of the talking. Can someone tell him to he is not a woman? Another example of Optum not getting it right. I just want him to shut up.

What’s going on PW UHG org? New CISO, CDO, ETIPs head …. mostly from financial institutions. Any insight?

We are being asked to do review. Is this a precursor for identifying people to put on layoff list? Looking for intel.

Hearing there are layoffs happening at optum and was wondering if anyone has heard about layoffs in the Optum At Home dept.

Let's use this thread for the July 23rd layoffs. I know there are some in Optum Rx.

Can my manager lay me off just because he's doesn't like me? He cannot make a case of bad performance because I literally get praises And thank yous everywhere from all the other stakeholders. I am IC. Can he fire my me or somehow influence the HR or... — read more 

https://share.google/pH0M2KdPS0pQE7Khg MOLINE, Ill. (KWQC) - 98 workers will be laid off due to the closure of a Moline pharmacy. Workers will start being laid off from divvyDOSE on 44th Avenue in Moline in August, according to Illinois WARN... — read more 

A coworker of mine said he was sent a random employee experience pulse survey. Do you think they’re looking at him to possibly add him to the list?

I’ve confirmed they really are lowing grades for the exact same position. What a sh-t company this is.

Does this mean we are about to get RIFed?

Learned today that’s the next wave

Has anyone laid off in May (last day 6/10) received their severance yet?

When people say “be grateful the company is paying you”… please remember: you are trading skills and time for pay you don’t owe a billionaire a thing Happy a happy week.

People keep obsessing over whether layoffs are coming next week or next month, but that's not the right thing to focus on. You can't control when they happen. What you can control is how prepared you are. Update your resume, network, save some... — read more 

Sure it's already being discussed on other threads but from what I heard from internal sources they are already discussing a massive layoffs for q3 prior to the Q4 bonus allocation discussions season. Let's post all our collective knowledge is... — read more 

Let’s face it, without poor leadership here, they wouldn’t be: } Ridiculous amount of offshoring } Incompetent leadership, whether onshore or offshore } People with H1B in Sr Mgmnt roles, bullying and laying off US Citizens Without the psychopaths... — read more 

People keep talking about cuts happening this month. Is there any actual truth to that or is it just noise?