Walmart reportedly cutting corporate jobs, relocating workers

Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs and asking most remote workers to move to offices, per a Wall Street Journal article, which cited people familiar with the matter.

Additionally, workers in small offices in Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto are being asked to move to other central hubs like Walmart’s corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., as well as Hoboken, N.J., or Northern California, per the report, which also noted that the retailer will still allow staff to work remotely part of the time, as long as they are in offices the majority of the time. 

Walmart is the country’s largest employer, with 1.6 million U.S. workers, most of them in stores and warehouses. Walmart has tens of thousands of U.S. corporate workers across the country. 

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Walmart announced on April 30 that due to rising costs it is closing 51 health centers across five states.

The company noted that back in 2019, it launched Walmart Health centers, and that during its five-year journey, it made meaningful impacts with patients while continuing to learn, pivot and evolve. 

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