Massive layoffs of excellent employees to pad the bottom line - Anonymous employee Vizient Employee Review

1.0
Jan 3, 2024
Anonymous employee
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Pros

The colleagues (but definitely not senior management)

Cons

Strict and inflexible return to office push. CEO stated, "Look, if you want to work for a virtual company, this isn't the company for you." Massive layoff of something like 600 employees right before Thanksgiving - zero consideration for people's performance ratings and skill level, seemingly based heavily on remote workers. Embarrassing severance pay if you're not a leadership level employee. Leaders still do not take diversity or sexual harassment seriously. We were told by the CEO to "prioritize the WE over the ME" in the summer, so we buckled down, kept drinking the koolaid, and were still laid off. DO NOT BE LOYAL TO VIZIENT; you will regret it and it will not be returned to you.

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5.0
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Pros

Fantastic leadership always willing to help you grow in your career and skillset!

Cons

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3.0
Apr 11, 2026
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Pros

Good company culture from c-suite down. Genuine care for employees as people with families. We work hard and the vast majority of coworkers and leaders are fantastic.

Cons

In 2025 Vizient fully restricted virtual employees from being promoted and from making any lateral moves. All impacted employees were hired BEFORE this policy was enacted. I was hired at the beginning of 2021 as a virtual employee with the expectation of occasional travel for on-site team and project/client meetings. Now, with the forcing of all employees back to the office, they’ve also restricted virtual roles. Prior to this policy enactment, we were NEVER told our roles could be restricted one day. Now, if we want to apply for lateral or promotional roles we have to move to a city of Vizient’s requirement (Dallas/Chicago primarily). This is extremely unfair. Families can start and roots put down in 4 years. Now, if I want or am recommended for a promotion I have to unexpectedly and without any prior expectation set, uproot my family and our lives to a congested city so I can commute 2-hours roundtrip to be in the office THREE (3) days a week as required by the in-office requirement and take VIRTUAL CALLS from a cubicle. Nothing about this is fair or makes sense. Even with employees being required to be in-office, they just stay half a day or less. Why do this to everyone? Are you planning to lay off all virtual employees?

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