(May 13): Walmart Inc is cutting or relocating about 1,000 corporate jobs in what the big-box retailer says is a consolidation of its technology and artificial-intelligence efforts.
“We’ve made changes to simplify how the work is organised, make ownership clearer and better align roles to the work and skills we need going forward,” Suresh Kumar, Walmart’s global chief technology and development officer, and Daniel Danker, the company’s executive vice president of artificial intelligence acceleration, product and design, wrote in a memo Tuesday.
The company will help staff explore opportunities at Walmart where possible for workers who lose their jobs, the executives wrote.
In recent years, the Bentonville, Arkansas-based company has closed smaller office hubs while streamlining some operations in the process.
The Wall Street Journal earlier reported the news.
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