- Walmart closes offices in the United States that affects technology workers.
- In addition, it is telling home office employees that they must return to the offices at least two days a week.
- The news was published by the WSJ based on an internal email signed by Suresh Kumar, Walmart’s global director of technology.
Walmart will close three of its largest technology centers in the United States and will require workers to move to other destinations if their intention is to keep their jobs.
This is how he assures it The Wall Street Journal this Tuesday, February 14, citing as a source an internal memo that Walmart sent to the employees involved.
In parallel, the company that generates the most direct employment in the world will begin to require all employees who perform tasks related to technology to, at least go to the offices two days a week.
In other words: no more 100 percent home office at Walmart.
Specifically, Walmart is closing its offices in Austin, Texas; those located in Carlsbad, California; and those of Portland, in the state of Oregon.
The memorandum bears the signature of suresh kumarWalmart’s global CTO.
Walmart’s idea is for employees to relocate to other offices, such as those located in San Bruno, California, or Bentonville, Ark.
The company says in the memo that those who transfer will receive severance pay.
Mass layoffs at Walmart
The mass layoffs come to Walmart in the same way that they have come last year to all large companies, especially those related to technology.
It’s that after a period of aggressive hiring to meet the increased demand for online services in times of covid, tech firms are now laying off many of those workers.
In most cases, the heads of technology departments themselves admit that they miscalculated when they recruited technology employees en masse.
Also, in the case of Walmart, most workers in the firm’s technology sectors will have to leave the home office complete to return to the offices at least two days a week.
This idea has been around the human resources corridors of Walmart since last year. At the Bentonville corporate headquarters, for example, they must work in person five days a week.
This shift is a sign that even for tech companies that embraced remote work in the pandemic, in-person work and corporate offices will continue to be important in the future.
Activision Blizzard, for example, said this Monday, February 13, that it will intensify its return-to-office policy. The firm that is about to be bought by Microsoft, notified some employees that they will have to report to the offices three days a week starting in April.
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