沃尔玛准备关闭奥斯汀等三地办公室让几百号员工搬到总部和San Bruno一周两天进公司...

Walmart to Close Three Tech Hubs, Tells Tech Staff to Return to Offices
Retail giant is closing offices in Austin, Portland and Carlsbad and telling hundreds of staff they must relocate to keep their jobs

Walmart Inc. t plans to close three of its U.S. technology hubs and require hundreds of workers to relocate to keep their jobs, according to a memo reviewed by The Wall Street Journal. The retailer will also begin to require all its technology workers to come into the office at least two days a week.
The retail behemoth will close offices that house technology staff in Austin, Texas; Carlsbad, Calif.; and Portland, Ore., according to a memo to staff last week from Suresh Kumar, Walmart’s global chief technology officer.
Walmart will pay for workers in those locations to transfer to other primary offices, such as San Bruno, Calif., or the company’s headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. The company hopes to relocate most of the workers, and some will be allowed to become full-time remote workers, a spokeswoman said. Those who leave will be given severance pay, she said.

“We’ve made the decision to focus our tech team’s presence within select locations,” said the spokeswoman. Rival Amazon.com Inc. and other large technology firms have recently announced plans to cut thousands of jobs.


In addition, most of Walmart’s global technology workers will need to be in their assigned office at least two days a week, Mr. Kumar said in the memo. Many workers in Walmart’s Bentonville corporate headquarters have been required to work in-person five days a week since last year.


The shift is a sign that even for technology companies that earlier in the pandemic embraced remote work, in-person work and central offices will play a role going forward. Activision Blizzard Inc., publisher of videogames such as “Call of Duty,” on Monday became the latest company to step up its in-office policy, notifying some employees that they would need to report to offices three days a week beginning in April.

补充内容 (2023-02-16 02:02 +8:00):
楼里有奥斯汀小伙伴不幸中招，目前的政策是要么6个月内搬家到指定的地方上班；要么只有3个月时间（payroll）自己走人。

目前听说的情况是要么搬家，搬到现有的办公室所在的城市去。公司给搬家费。
不搬的话就再干6个月然后走人。
WFH的员工得要vp level approveal才能继续remote，不然听说也得搬家
而且这个强制RTO 每周两天这个规定，已经在Blind上面被骂翻天了
主要原因是大数多办公室的桌子椅子不够而且质量很低，外加leadership 要去我们积极的去和其他人"engage"

匿名用户 发表于 2023-02-14 09:46:47
目前听说的情况是要么搬家，搬到现有的办公室所在的城市去。公司给搬家费。
不搬的话就再干6个月然后走人。
WFH的员工得要vp level approveal才能继续remote，不然听说也得搬家

咋engage啊 这如果拖家带口的怎么搬家 真的感觉在变相赶人

我之前公司在2010年的时候也来过这么一遭，说是 IT transformation 把所有remote worker强制relo，不relo就开了。也是传统公司，所以这个操作不是很意外。。。

匿名用户 发表于 2023-02-14 09:46:47
目前听说的情况是要么搬家，搬到现有的办公室所在的城市去。公司给搬家费。
不搬的话就再干6个月然后走人。
WFH的员工得要vp level approveal才能继续remote，不然听说也得搬家

这….是变相赶人？😨

匿名用户 发表于 2023-2-14 12:12
这….是变相赶人？😨

算是soft layoff吧，其他俩个办公室我不清楚，Austin好像就没几个人外加在downtow那边，估计房租也不便宜

是3个月走人或者6个月搬家

austin site的，很不幸地中招了。。。。打算走人。。。

匿名用户 发表于 2023-02-15 08:08:15
是3个月走人或者6个月搬家

要是我就假装搬家拿6个月再走