Walmart cutting hundreds of corporate jobs, asking remote workers to return to office: report
A Walmart associate operates an autonomous forklift around the distribution center. (Credit: Walmart)
Walmart is about to have hundreds fewer people working in corporate offices, and remote workers are being asked to return to offices, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
The U.S. retailer is asking workers at offices in Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto to relocate to Walmart's corporate base in Bentonville, Arkansas, a northeast office in Hoboken, New Jersey, or a central hub in Southern California, according to the Journal, which cited people familiar with the situation.
The company will allow what is referred to as a hybrid schedule — where employees can work part-time remotely, so long as they are in office for the majority of their work week.
Walmart did not immediately respond to a FOX Business request for comment.
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Walmart is currently the largest retailer in the U.S. and the world. (David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
Walmart ranked 97 on this year's Fortune «100 Best Companies to Work For.» Fortune's website says the company has 103,776 job openings.
«There are 2.1 million proud Walmart associates across the globe, from truck unloaders working their first jobs to some of the most influential executives in the industry – and everything in between,» Walmart says on its corporate website. «In fact, our CEO – Doug McMillon – has been in both roles, and his story isn’t uncommon among Walmart’s top leaders.»
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A Walmart employee working at the first high-tech Market Fulfillment Center in Arkansas. (Walmart)
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