Today and tomorrow will be mass layoffs in Walmart about 1500 people laid off from US offices. I’m the one who got affected and literally got this as birthday surprise after working for 6 years.

Does anyone inside of corporate Walmart know more?

FYI, this is happening to corporate.

Everyone thinks I'm a loser, even my kids. The look on everyones face when I say I'm working at Walmart....

To me work is work and you do whatever you have to do to support your family. I haven't worked retail since the 90s . Back then I did a lot of shitty jobs like magazine sales, door to door cookware sales, door to door long distance phone service sales, sold knock off perfume in parking lots. I've been working since I was 14 in 1993 with the exception of 9 months laid off in 2013.

I got laid off in March and am on unemployment. I've made massive lifestyle changes and the only debt I have is student loan and mortgage with escrow. I am still $2k short a month with unemployment and it's coming out of my very limited savings. I am working part time as to still get my unemployment and have time to look for a job. I will make an extra $322/week working at Walmart. After taxes that will almost cover food for the month and will lower what I'm taking from savings.

I've been a single parent for over 20 years. I have 2 kids at home that I'm fully supporting. I can't just sit here applying for jobs with no one calling me and just hope, I'd rather just figure shit out in the mean time n do what I gotta do. Ive already been through my network, nothing. I'm tapping into other people's networks, still nothing.

I have a MBA and 24 years in my field. Ironically I just finished my first 2 days at Walmart and I got 2 interview requests (after deleting 14 years of experience fr9m ny resume). I'm super happy about it. I've applied to 200 jobs since January (got WARN notice) and i had 1 legit interview.

Don't be too good to hustle n do what you have to do, whatever that may be. Yes all the negativity made me cry and made me want to just blow off my first day but I put my big girl panties on, said fuck the haters and went to work.

I have to give my one friend/former coworker props because her immediate reaction was " I'm so proud of you!" I used to be her manager. She is the only person in my life that didn't make me feel like a POS. I'm not ashamed I'm working at Walmart so I'm going to keep telling people.

That is all.

ETA I'm a woman, mom

I heard there’s a layoff at home office today. Does anyone know how many people were impacted?

Walmart HO and international being hit hard today. Directos, 25 years, recent hired. All affected

Looks like Walmart and Sam’s HQ laid off about 1500 employees today. “Restructuring.”

https://www.wsj.com/business/retail/walmart-layoffs-reorganization-2abd46eb

Anybody else affected by the layoffs today?

Source :https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-21/walmart-eliminates-about-1-500-jobs-on-technology-team

Walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs and asking most remote workers to move to offices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

Meanwhile, workers at the U.S. retail giant’s smaller offices in Dallas, Atlanta and Toronto are being asked to move to other central hubs such as Walmart’s corporate headquarters in Bentonville as well as Hoboken or Southern California, the report added.

Walmart will still let staff work remotely part time, as long as they are in offices a majority of the time, the report said.

Walmart employed approximately 2.1 million associates as of Jan. 31, 2024, according to regulatory filings.

The company has been making moves to shrink its workforce over the past year and had said in April last year that it expects about 65% of its stores to be serviced by automation by the end of its fiscal year 2026.

In February 2023, it shut three of its U.S. technology hubs and asked hundreds of workers to relocate to keep their jobs, pushing for more employees to report to work from office.

Walmart didn’t immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/walmart-to-reportedly-lay-off-hundreds-of-corporate-staff-and-relocate-others.html

Walmart has severely cut hours. We are going back to third shift 10pm-7am. I was hired for 3pm-12am. They made me full time in like a month and then turned around and made me part time again saying "they are short on hours" which doesn't make sense for a 300 billion dollar company. I was making good money. Now i do not make enough to pay my bills.

FUCK ME

I am not sure what to do...

This is not a usual place to do layoffs! It’s not silicon valley that you lay off people and then they have other companies to turn to. How can you practically make people move here in a hell hole like Bentonville and the lay them off. Are you frikkin stupid? Do you want people to commit suicide? You don’t let any other company come here, you ask people to move here and then you take away their job? What is this emotional roller coaster, do you want us to die literally?

Retail bellwether Walmart plans to cut about 1,500 jobs as part of a restructuring plan to lower expenses, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing a person familiar with the matter.

The company's plan will impact teams in its global technology operations, e-commerce fulfillment in U.S. stores, and its advertising business Walmart Connect, the report said.