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This isn't your typical RTO story. Walmart is asking their staff to move across the country to the home office in Bentonville, AR. Bentonville is a company tow
by Centigonal 2y ago
This isn't your typical RTO story. Walmart is asking their staff to move across the country to the home office in Bentonville, AR.
Bentonville is a company town with not too much nearby. It's a nice enough place, with good schools, a few surrounding towns, and a fantastic art museum, but above all it's Walmart town. If you move there from another state and ever decide to work somewhere else, you're probably going to want to uproot your life again and move your family across the country. It's a great retention strategy for Walmart, and the lower CoL doesn't hurt either. If you prefer a more cosmopolitan lifestyle and the option to work elsewhere without moving, the Bentonville deal is a pretty unattractive one.
At least they've put windows in some of the office buildings now, that's a plus.
- from-nibly 2y agoI thought that's what is making this typical. It's a layoff in disguise like most of the other RTOs we've been seeing.
- Centigonal 2y agoI think the "layoff in disguise" aspect is true for sure. I'm saying there's a big difference between Amazon asking people who WFH to hoof it 10-40 minutes each way to their nearest office, versus Walmart asking people who might already commute to a Walmart office to move to Bentonville.
- ahi 2y agoSome 20 years ago I was doing competitive intelligence on them. After finding the third or fourth affair/divorce/chicanery among executives in a week of digging I asked my veteran boss, like, wtf, why is this company so gross? "It's Bentonville. They recruit cosmopolitan MBAs and the only thing to do is each other."
- androiddrew 2y agoI am surprised this hasn’t gotten any comments. This sounds like some corporate espionage by a different name. How do I get in on this?
- ahi 2y agoPretty standard due dilligence work. I was pulling court records looking for conflicts of interests and found the other scandalous sort.
- 486sx33 2y agoI have to say I’ve driven nearby on the interstate and a side road, highway? That adjoins the Walmart distribution center and my goodness I don’t think I’ve ever seen so many tractor trailers in one place, let alone the sheer volume of the truck and trailer that I’m sure are constantly coming and going. Truly amazing. And I’d want to be at least 50 miles from there