March 23, 2023 - Fears of an upcoming recession have already led retailers to announce 17,456 job cuts so far in 2023, compared with 761 in the same period last year, according to a March report by Challenger, Gray and Christmas.

March 23, 2023 - Walmart is laying off hundreds of employees at e-commerce fulfillment centers across the country.

March 27, 2023 - Walmart is set to lay off hundreds of workers in its e-commerce fulfillment center, Reuters first reported. Workers at warehouses in Pedricktown, New Jersey; Fort Worth, Texas; Chino, California; Davenport, Florida; and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, ...

April 5, 2023 - Walmart is planning to cut more than 2,000 jobs in five e-commerce fulfilment centres across the country.

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April 4, 2023 - Walmart is laying off more than 2,000 workers at five US warehouses that fulfill website orders, weeks after America’s largest private employer warned it’s in for a tough year ahead.

May 15, 2024 - As part of the move, Walmart is shutting down a Toronto office, reported the Toronto Star. In late 2023, the employer launched an artificial intelligence-powered chatbot for secure internal use for all home office-based associates.

September 26, 2025 - Walmart is closing an office in North Carolina and laying off hundreds of employees in that office, according to an internal memo.

— read more · #CEO #CSuiteChange #Retirement #SuccessionPlanning #News ... We don’t expect additional layoffs /RIFs until (at the earliest) 2nd or 3rd week of February 2026, if needed.

On a “business update” call with employees, remote workers were given until July 1 to make a decision about relocating or to quit with severance, according to a source familiar with the matter, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The source added that Walmart would be closing its Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto offices later this year.

May 14, 2024 - Walmart lays off hundreds of workers at e-commerce facilities By Daphne Howland • March 24, 2023

Also use this thread to post personal experience/questions regarding the impact. 672,431 · LayoffsFeb 9, 2023 · #ReadyForWorkiPVD14 · Today Walmart announced a “gentleman’s layoff”. They said they are closing 3 hubs, and remote workers need to return to office.

March 23, 2023 - Amid a rather bullish rally in the overall stock market today, Walmart (NYSE:WMT) is increasingly in focus. That’s because the world’s largest retailer by employee count is the latest to announce additional job cuts. These Walmart layoffs will reportedly affect “hundreds” of employees across five warehouse locations.

June 27, 2025 - AI startups are doing layoffs. ... Work a less competitive job and you won’t make enough to live. Work your ass off, go to school to get a high paying job, get outsourced. ... I would say it started to get bad at the end of 2023 as it was an employees market in 2021/22 when tech companies were on a Covid hiring spree.

April 14, 2023 - Jacquelyn Cook, a spokesperson for Walmart, said that the layoffs were unrelated to the automation expansion, which was announced two days later.

August 19, 2024 - The company announced last year ... the end of fiscal year 2026. In February 2023, Walmart closed three US technology hubs, requiring hundreds of employees to relocate to retain their positions....

May 22, 2025 - Retail giant Walmart is laying off 1,500 corporate workers as it moves to keep up with technological change, a memo to employees said.

May 30, 2025 - Earlier this year, Big Tech giants ... trend hit Walmart, which said it will "remove layers and complexity" by reducing its labor force by 1,500 people, many of them in midlevel corporate roles....

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