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Sam's Club CTO to Exit Due to Walmart Relocation Policy

118 点作者 jihadjihad7 个月前

16 条评论

archeantus7 个月前
I spent 7 amazing years working for Walmart Labs (what they called it at the time) and it was a great place to work. I was being paid like I lived in the Bay Area, but I lived in a much lower cost of living area. I worked my tail off for them and got two promotions. On the second one they declined to increase my annual RSU target because I was making too much for my geo. I saw the writing on the wall regarding their plans for remote workers and left to a competitor that has been much more remote friendly.<p>I know so many amazing people that were doing the work of their lives that quit or were laid off because of the RTO mandate. I can’t believe that they are doubling down on this, despite the human and financial costs associated with it.<p>Ultimately it highlights an important fact about working at WM (and lots of other companies, I am sure): you aren’t as special or irreplaceable as you think you are. Look out for yourselves and do what makes sense for you, always!
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Centigonal7 个月前
This isn&#x27;t your typical RTO story. Walmart is asking their staff to move across the country to the home office in Bentonville, AR.<p>Bentonville is a company town with not too much nearby. It&#x27;s a nice enough place, with good schools, a few surrounding towns, and a fantastic art museum, but above all it&#x27;s Walmart town. If you move there from another state and ever decide to work somewhere else, you&#x27;re probably going to want to uproot your life again and move your family across the country. It&#x27;s a great retention strategy for Walmart, and the lower CoL doesn&#x27;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.<p>At least they&#x27;ve put windows in some of the office buildings now, that&#x27;s a plus.
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Tostino7 个月前
I hope they have to offer some significant compensation to find a competent replacement willing to move to Arkansas.<p>Companies need to be humbled a little with these policies they want to force.
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ian-g7 个月前
Good. If you&#x27;re going to require RTO, don&#x27;t exempt higher ups from it. Looking at you, Starbucks
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23B17 个月前
Its just RIFs camouflaged as RTO mandates. Management loves this sort of thing, a karmic freebie.<p>Corpos don&#x27;t want you to &#x27;put down roots&#x27; unless they can keep you from leaving, gives them more leverage over you. Knock-on effect is atomized communities, made worse by internet-atomized culture. It&#x27;s a version of providing meals&#x2F;gyms&#x2F;amenities: check out any time you want, never leave.<p>Remote work is so obviously better for society, efficiency, and costs that responsible executives and shareholders should demand it. Talented employees should turn down offers and tell recruiters why: RTO mandates are a sign of weak and even impotent management (you can tell by the hand-wavy B.S. they use to justify it btw).
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mikeortman7 个月前
Artificially aiming to increase natural attrition through requiring employees to make like-altering decisions (or else) is evil. At the bare minimum, it should be seen as a layoff.
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baoha7 个月前
Nice, meanwhile the bigger CTO (Suresh Kumar) can stay in Sunnyvale
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dduugg7 个月前
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jraines7 个月前
Good for her. The exit tech alone should be proof enough that you don’t have to be physically close to tHe bUsINeSs to bring value to millions of customers.
tshaddox7 个月前
I wonder who the highest-ranking employee will be who actually <i>does</i> move to Bentonville, Arkansas.
yieldcrv7 个月前
Who can you get to move from California to Arkansas<p>especially if they can already afford to live in California<p>even the few wage workers subject to California’s taxes at higher brackets can become aware of all the other places with lower taxes
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game_the0ry7 个月前
&gt; ...is leaving the company due to a policy requiring thousands of corporate employees to relocate to headquarters in Arkansas...<p>&gt; Walmart has asked many of its employees from smaller offices, as well as remote workers around the US, to move to the company’s larger corporate offices. Most employees are going to Arkansas.<p>Wow. Just wow.<p>Let me get this straight -- Walmart management actually wants people to up-root their lives, take their kids out of school, re-arrange their routines with childcare, move away from family that may be nearby...I could go on and on...and move to Arkansas?<p>&quot;Move or go fuck yourself.&quot;<p>Clearly, Walmart management does not care about their employees.<p>As a side note, while I acknowledge the benefits of RTTO, working remote is something that increased the quality of my life tremendously. But management-types just can&#x27;t help make their employees miserable -- pathological.
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ErikAugust7 个月前
Aren’t the people who make the bulk of what Walmart sells remote workers? It’s not like they go into the office…
midnitewarrior7 个月前
&quot;There&#x27;s not enough money to get me to move my life to Arkansas.&quot;
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almost_usual7 个月前
According to LinkedIn they live in San Jose.
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yunohn7 个月前
I mean, being forced to move is bad enough, but Arkansas? That’s a tough one for someone in tech I feel.
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