Walmart

| May 06, 2016

A little constructive criticism goes a long way at work. However, for one particular employee named Shane at Walmart Deli, being told to mend his mistakes repeatedly does not seem to be an effective method. His colleague took to Imgur – an online image sharing community and image host – to post pictures of whiteboard notes written by Walmart’s management to Shane....

hrdive | June 20, 2017

Business News Daily reports that Walmart has partnered with STRIVR, a performance training firm, to add virtual reality to its employee training programs. Brock McKeel, senior director of central operations at Walmart was inspired by watching VR technology being used to train the University of Arkansas' football team, Business News Daily reports. He brought the idea back to Walmart headquarters and a test pilot showed that Walmart employees who trained using VR performed better and retained ...

hrdive | August 10, 2017

Training programs are at the heart of a Walmart rebranding effort focused on positioning the company as a worker-focused and community minded company, reports the New York Times. The retail giant's Walmart Academy has classrooms in 150 stores across the country where employees learn skills ranging from how to create profit and loss statements to better management skills. In addition to Walmart Academy, which is for workers on a managerial track, Walmart runs Pathways, a separate training pro...

HR Dive | August 02, 2018

Amazon and Walmart are leading the tech world in hiring at the midway point of 2018, according to a report by IEEE Spectrum, a magazine from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. In April, Amazon announced the addition of 3,000 cloud computing and machine learning engineers at its expanded facility in Vancouver, Canada. The e-commerce giant also said it planned to grow its Dublin, Ireland, Amazon Web Services offices by adding 1,000 software and development engineers, according ...