When is the realignment for chronic care?

[anonymous]

Understand that however they make decisions on separation that one of the first concerns is risk to the organization. Great efforts are made to remove subjectivity and use objective measures instead. In recent displacements things like competencies (a subjective assesment converted to objective through numeric scoring by Mgt.), maintaining existing customer relationships, distance to center of workload to name a few. THEN final decisions are not made by management (where subjective bias could be asserted) but rather HR or HR in concert with an outside consultant. Generally they get it pretty right but there are always some head scratchers. After going through this several times what I can share confidently is those displaced, be it unsettling at best, will end up finding other work and doing just fine. Best to all those caugfht up in this, things will get better.

So a rep with a lower salary and outperforming the majority has a high likelihood of placement vs a more seasoned salaried rep with lesser performance?

 

[anonymous]

So a rep with a lower salary and outperforming the majority has a high likelihood of placement vs a more seasoned salaried rep with lesser performance?

You must not have fully understood what was written. Precisely and objectively defining outperforming is far more difficult than it would seem. Again, competency scores, established relationships, distance to workload are a few of the metrics that have historically been used. Usually, after that, HR and the consultants make final placement decisons so that subjectivity can't easily be claimed by someone filing for wrongful termination. In general the process gets it right in the vast majority of cases but there are always an example or two of decisions that make no sense at face value.

Another approach an organization might take to mitigate risk is blanket displacements. An an example would be displacing ALL individuals within a given grouping without prejudice.

Finally, attempts might be made to match the displacement pool somehwat closely to the eligible displacment cohort. Meaning, if pre-displacement 20% of the eligible employees were Eagles fans, yet the assesment model displacement pool yielded a group that was 80% eagles fans, HR and the consultants might work to balance that somewhat closer to the pre-displacement cohort. Usually that is not required the bigger the sample size.

Good luck to all.

 

[anonymous]

what a mess this group is now. Kind of pathetic

 

[anonymous]

Rare disease with huge territories or oncology is future. I feel sorry for young people wanting to make pharmaceuticals a career. Doctors have plenty of generic medicines to choose, little need to see reps. Insurance resists paying for new medicines. Working in pharma until retirement is almost as likely as winning the lottery. Branded medicines used to have 100s million patients world wide. Cost $1200 per year. Products now have 2 million patients world wide total in last 10 years at almost $200,000 per year. Almost everyone in pharma will need a career change. The pay is not worth the risk long term. Companies have absolutely no loyalty to employees. People are better off finding new careers.

 

[anonymous]

So a rep with a lower salary and outperforming the majority has a high likelihood of placement vs a more seasoned salaried rep with lesser performance?

No, not true. I know a few reps younger under 5 years with merck get let go and they were a mix of minorities and whites before someone hops on the "only whites lost their jobs train" .

 

[anonymous]

No, not true. I know a few reps younger under 5 years with merck get let go and they were a mix of minorities and whites before someone hops on the "only whites lost their jobs train" .

I am one of those reps

 

[anonymous]

No, not true. I know a few reps younger under 5 years with merck get let go and they were a mix of minorities and whites before someone hops on the "only whites lost their jobs train" .

Have to love pushing the antiwoke agenda when someone doesn't like something... The layoffs were all over the place. Anyone who says they targeted a specific group is an idiot.