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Walmart Is Laying Off 1,500 Corporate Employees: 'Reshaping Our Structure'

Sherin Shibu

created: May 22, 2025, 3:06 p.m. | updated: May 23, 2025, 3:36 p.m.

Related: Top-Performing Walmart Managers Can Now Make $620,000 a Year"Reshaping our structure allows us to accelerate how we deliver and adapt to the changing environment around us," the Walmart executives wrote in the memo, which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. They wrote that Walmart was creating some new positions in addition to cutting roles, though they did not give details about the new jobs. Walmart's layoffs follow a restructuring in February, when Walmart shut down its Charlotte, North Carolina, office and laid off hundreds of employees. Social media users on Reddit were quick to point out that some corporate Walmart employees were forced to move to Arkansas last year, and now their roles could be eliminated. Related: C-Suite Executives Secretly Hoped Employees Would Quit After Implementing Return-to-Office Mandates, According to a New Survey

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