Walmart layoffs: US' largest private employer to eliminate jobs and relocate staff

Walmart layoffs: US’ largest private employer to eliminate jobs and relocate staff

Posted by author February 7, 2025 Jobs

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Walmart is eliminating jobs and closing its Charlotte, North Carolina office while relocating corporate employees to its main hubs in Arkansas and California, according to a memo from news officials.

The retail giant is also asking office-based employees in Hoboken, New Jersey, and other smaller offices, to relocate to its newly opened headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas and its office in Sunnyvale, California, Donna Morris, Walmart’s chief people officer, wrote in a memo.

“Our values and culture are strategic differentiators for us as a company, and they are fostered by being together,” Morris wrote in the recent memo. “We’ve already seen the benefits of having more teams working together in person, and today we are sharing another step that will help accelerate our momentum.”

The office closure will directly impact 267 jobs, according to news reports. Any employees that don’t secure a new position within the company would be terminated affective June 13, according to Walmart.

“We are making these changes to put key capabilities together, encouraging speed and shared understanding.”

Walmart is one among several major corporations such as Amazon and Microsoft, that have mandated a return to office. Bloomberg reports hundreds of jobs are expected to be eliminated as part of this relocation process.

Last year, Walmart asked employees in Dallas, Atlanta, and Toronto to relocate to bigger hubs, most of which went to the main office in Bentonville. In a different memo at that time, Morris said “We believe that being together, in person, makes us better and helps us to collaborate, innovate and move even faster.” Adding “We also believe it helps strengthen our culture as well as grow and develop our associates.”