“CEO Spent Millions on a company wide retreat to Vegas, only to start Layoffs a couple months later - Manager Aya Healthcare Employee Review

1.0
Aug 29, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

The ability to work remotely

Cons

While there are dozens of cons to go over here by far the most egregious thing I’ve ever witnessed in my professional career took place at Aya. The CEO held a company wide retreat in Las Vegas. He mentioned other companies doing layoffs and how that would not happen at Aya. We all excitedly danced the night away thinking jobs were safe. Only a couple months later nearly all my high performing colleagues I worked with were laid off. I get the market, and business, and “being transparent about an employees future with the company” but what I don’t get is why the CEO would make these proclamations of No Layoffs when massive layoffs happened a couple months later. How many jobs could the CEO have saved if he put the Vegas retreat budget towards salaries, or better severance packages, or dare I say raises.

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Aya Healthcare Response
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Thank you for sharing your feedback. Our team members power everything we do for our clients and clinicians, so we took the first opportunity we had to thank them for their years of hard work during the pandemic with a celebration in Vegas. We strive to do right by everyone who works with us and for us, and when some employees were notified about their limited growth opportunities at Aya due to reorganizing, we wanted to treat everyone with dignity and respect by being transparent and offering them generous packages and notice to ease the transition. If you'd like to discuss anything further, please reach out to our Chief People Officer, Amber Zeeb, at feedback@ayahealthcare.com.

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