Walmart
megastore
exterior
and
logo
sign,
Denver,
North
Carolina.
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Walmart is
cutting
hundreds
of
corporate
jobs
and
asking
most
remote
workers
to
move
to
offices,
the
Wall
Street
Journal
reported
on
Monday,
citing
people
familiar
with
the
matter.
Meanwhile,
workers
at
the
U.S.
retail
giant’s
smaller
offices
in
Dallas,
Atlanta
and
Toronto
are
being
asked
to
move
to
other
central
hubs
such
as
Walmart’s
corporate
headquarters
in
Bentonville
as
well
as
Hoboken
or
Southern
California,
the
report
added.
Walmart
will
still
let
staff
work
remotely
part
time,
as
long
as
they
are
in
offices
a
majority
of
the
time,
the
report
said.
Walmart
employed
approximately
2.1
million
associates
as
of
Jan.
31,
2024,
according
to
regulatory filings.
The
company
has
been
making
moves
to
shrink
its
workforce
over
the
past
year
and
had said in
April
last
year
that
it
expects
about
65%
of
its
stores
to
be
serviced
by
automation
by
the
end
of
its
fiscal
year
2026.
In
February
2023,
it shut three
of
its
U.S.
technology
hubs
and
asked
hundreds
of
workers
to
relocate
to
keep
their
jobs,
pushing
for
more
employees
to
report
to
work
from
office.
Walmart
didn’t
immediately
respond
to
a
Reuters
request
for
comment.
