Just continuously shooting themselves in the foot - Sad - Anonymous employee HealthTrust Employee Review

1st thing to understand is that HT is a subsidiary of HCA - literally the strategic supply chain department for HCA and a few other for profit equity owners. B/c of this relationship, HT leadership either doesn't have or doesn't bother to manage themselves (ie what happens at HCA is going to happen at HT). That's PTO policy (terrible at best - 13 days the first 5 yrs of employment), that's 401k match (once/yr and not fully vested until after 6 years), minimal WFH policies (which having just been announced that the measly 1 day/week is being taken away for anyone Director and above). But really there are 2 HTs: Pre-covid and current. Pre-covid was tolerable even with the poor benefits. After YEARS of begging for some amount of work from home, leadership "gave" us 2 days a month and complained everywhere they could about those 2 days (whether in company-wide meetings or at conferences) and how millennials were making life hard. Then Covid came. Within weeks of NY getting shut down, HT went full on emergency mode to find supply for HCA and the membership. HT went fully remote. All employees were told "drop what you're doing, we're going in full response mode". Made perfect sense. We were given new roles, learned them on the fly and were told "you're going to be on call 24/7". Many of us were, many of us understood why, and many of us were proud to help. Many of us worked 70-90 hour weeks without complaint. We adjusted. Unfortunately, leadership (generally 50+ in age) didn't. Even before Delta hit, Senior leaders were ignoring the cracks and the burnout and expecting people to come back to the office for our "collaborative culture" (ie- the current leaders grew up in an era of micro-management and in office work, and were unwilling to adapt even though HUNDREDS of big time companies (many other fortune 500 companies like HCA were able to do). Put in another way, in the open cube layout of the HT offices, leaders (when they wanted something), could just stroll over to your cube and interrupt your work to get what they wanted. With covid, they had to actually send messages, texts, or call people. We were on calls with senior leaders nearly weekly to discuss progress, and for those leaders to communicate how "proud they were of use that we adapted (a company core value) to the covid environment and how our output was tremendous". They literally admitted weekly that they were proud and surprised at how much we were getting done workwise. They knew we were producing, but that old school mentality prevailed in the name of "collaborative culture". IN APRIL 2020, THEY TOOK PART OF OUR PAY- Managers and below- 10%, Sr Mgrs- AVPs - 20%, and VPs and above 30%. they did this for 3 months. At a time when people were struggling with a sluggish economy, they took our pay without asking then thanked us for our sacrifice. Later in that year they returned 90% of that money, AND labeled it as a bonus (which is taxed differently). So money they took from us, wasn't even returned to us in full. This is HCA. Later when called out for this (and the nice consistent rise in the HCA stock price), employees were very critical of leadership in employee surveys. This led to a call in which the CEO of HT yelled/scolded at his employees during a weekly call They started bringing people in for 1 week in / 1 week out. then it became a 4/1 schedule. Meanwhile, folks in the building weren't vaccinated (very few with legitimate medical reasons) even with being a healthcare company. HCA did nothing to require vaccinations, only encourage them. then when the current administration attempted to require all healthcare and employers with 100+ folks to get vaccinated, it was a full court press "it's not us it's Biden" then cheered when the orders were rescinded. Later in the year 2021, the COO told employees that if they weren't in the office, they weren't getting promoted (bearing in mind again, that with the current company ideals, the only way to get a decent raise is to get promoted). The COO tried to backtrack on this statement, but then essentially only re-confirmed what they had stated - if you weren't in office, you wouldn't get promoted (and thus your pay would continue to suffer essentially) In spite of repeated requests and surveys, Senior leaders have continued to push the "collaborative culture", and have now even rescinded the 4/1 policy for those with a Director or above title. Don't believe the promos that talk about work from home, b/c depending on offers, you'll fall into the wrong bucket. I and others just continue to feel like leadership just don't care. Which again, with the HCA ties, they're linked to the benefits (options, bonuses, higher salaries at AVP or above) offered and are very much unwilling to rock the boat. So you either continue to put up with it until you can actually get that level of money or you leave. And people are leaving - in droves. Multiple negotiators (one of the highest paid departments) have already left and others will soon follow - probably myself included. It's due to burnout, constantly being ignored by leaders who talk up culture and employee survey results, yet ignore those surveys and have no idea (or just don't care) that the culture they've instilled is toxic. They've continuously refused to manage their pay scales, and so new people coming in with certain salary requirements are getting hired at more senior positions. Rather than adjust the scales of pay, they'd rather just arbitrarily hand out titles- which results in those employees who've worked here longer, share a job title earned through merit with someone fresh off the street. But if they raised their pay scales, they'd have to raise employee salaries across the board- something they lack the courage to do. At least in my area, a lot of promotions are given to awful people character-wise. they produce good results, and that's all that matters. Doesn't matter that they gossip, insult you, don't work to train newer people, and are just in generally cold individuals that don't talk to you unless you're like them