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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City will move its headquarters to a new 260,000-square-foot space in Kansas City, Mo. 

Four payers are among the nation's best places for hybrid jobs, according to FlexJobs.

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is committing to permanent remote work and won't require the majority of its 6,300 employees to come to the office, the Chattanooga Times Free Press reported Sept. 9.

A 54-acre campus in Minnesota partially occupied by UnitedHealth Group's Optum has been listed for lease, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal reported Sept. 8.

Four payers are among the nation's best places to work in healthcare, according to a ranking published Sept. 7 by Fortune and Great Place to Work.

Fidelis Care is committing to remote and hybrid employee workstyles and will exit some leases for office space in the Buffalo and Niagara Falls region of New York, The Buffalo News reported Sept. 6.

As the workforce across the country continues to adjust to more flexible workstyles, health insurers have hired C-suite talent and opened new office spaces that support hybrid workstyles.

MetroPlus Health has opened its new headquarters in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. 

From the cancellations of new headquarters to significant office space reductions, payers nationwide are moving toward permanent remote and hybrid work. These are seven recent workforce and office moves reported by Becker's since July 1:

Centene is no longer moving forward with its plan to build a 2.4 million-square-foot East Coast campus in North Carolina because of the shift to hybrid and remote work, The Charlotte Observer reported Aug. 18.