The big-box retailer is the latest company to announce that tech workers don't have to return to the office anytime soon — or potentially, ever.
In the memo, Kumar said Walmart's tech team has "thrived" during the pandemic and that's influenced plans for the future.
Walmart competes for tech talent with Silicon Valley companies. The retailer has about has about 10,000 tech employees in the U.S., including software engineers, data scientists and machine learning engineers. Many are based in Sunnyvale, California, but others are outside Silicon Valley at the company's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, or at the former Jet.com headquarters in Hoboken, New Jersey.The company is the largest private sector employer in the U.S. with about 1.
We are not alone. This unusual time has many companies, largely those in tech and services, thinking differently about the future of work. So, how do we think the future could look?
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