Pleasanton employees behind the scenes of Kaiser Permanente’s direct health care operations were among those impacted by the company’s most recent round of layoffs.
Although Kaiser’s patient-facing Tri-Valley outposts were not among those impacted by the strike, 43 administrative and IT workers at the East Bay health care organization’s Pleasanton offices were among the 184 employees cut throughout the Northern California region this month.
According to a statement from Kaiser, the move to cut staff from “business functions, primarily in IT and food services” – roles that do not provide direct patient care – came from an ongoing goal to “put our people and resources where they are needed most”…