Walmart Seeks to Retain Employees by Hiring Them Full-Time
A worker delivers groceries to a customer's vehicle outside a Walmart Inc. store in Amsterdam, New York.
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Walmart Inc. said it will shift more of its U.S. workforce to full-time status, the latest move by the nation’s biggest private employer to hold onto staff.
The world’s largest retailer said it expects two-thirds of its U.S. hourly roles will be full-time by the end of the fiscal year that concludes in January of 2022, which translates to about 100,000 more full-time positions than it had five years ago. The company said in a blog post Wednesday those roles will have consistent schedules from week to week, answering a common complaint of its workers.