navihealth is a growing albatross - Clinical Specialist Optum Employee Review

3.0
Jun 25, 2023
Recommend
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Pros

remote work was decent. work was simple and so was requesting time off you had to do was go into GSS and request time off.although there was this weird rule of only two people being allowed off in a week. they got rid of making the whole team do phone work for a while until they adjusted the system.

Cons

At first they had the whole home health department was on teams chat but it became overwhelming with people asking too many questions. Also the blatant display of favoritism shown based on who got their questions addressed/ answered was disgusting. Again if you weren't a favorite of head bootlicker in charge you weren't getting addressed in any capacity in those chats. Then they started designating more low level supervisors. The only requirement to become a supervisor was to work there a long time either remote or TN location and be a major brownnoser to whomever had seniority. They borderline harassed people to meet work quotas that were unrealistic. Constant weekly team percentages on who did the "most" work but they had biased stipulations such as if you were working that department for half a day then your percentage couldn't be counted as low because you technically didn't work all day in that department. So if you were unlucky enough to not catch a case in time you were bottom three for the week.They expected us to be competitive against a 1:10 workload ratio.Very few could keep up with whomever was hogging the cases for themselves.

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5.0
Apr 25, 2026
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Pros

Great Pay. Great Benefits. Great People. awesome front line management. Frequent meals and employee input.

Cons

Worked like a cog machine.

3.0
Jun 4, 2026
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Pros

Some very talented people give so much of themselves to the company, the clients and their co-workers. I work with (and have worked with) some excellent, smart, supportive people.

Cons

Too many layoffs. Upper management is clueless about how the day to day work gets done, what it takes to make certain changes to processes, and how to treat employees. Some are great. Mostly, they just look at numbers. So many of us have been doing our jobs long enough to know what is needed for certain requests. But we don't get a voice. We just have to do it and suck it up. They are firing ('reduction in force') all of the seasoned staff and let the rest deal with the fall-out. So many teams are losing good people but those people are training their off-shore replacements before they are told about being cut. So how is that a reduction in force? It's just a reduction in payroll numbers. Everyone is on edge just waiting for the next axe to fall. And we have to try and learn or teach another role with less experienced people and more work. It's crazy. On milestone anniversaries, they send an email recognition but once the milestone gets to over 15 years, you are a target. Pay and benefits are fine by me. Raises are practically non-existent, even after layoffs and asking employees to take on more responsibility. that's messed up. They talk about work/life balance but that doesn't trickle down to the actual workers who are so stressed they fear for their jobs if they don't do the extra mile. Many of us are just hanging on instead of quitting so we can at least get some severance. Others are actively looking.

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