Walmart announced in May that would require hundreds of remote workers to work in person at its corporate headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas and other centers in Hoboken, NJ and Northern California. A new one Bloomberg report shows that employees pushed back to the office mandate (RTO) on a company-wide Zoom call, and some chose to leave.

On the call, one participant said the RTO policy was “a bunch of bullsh-t,” and others expressed concerns about life in Arkansas, childcare, job growth and their partner's jobs being affected by the move.

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A Walmart employee told Bloomberg that he decided to leave the company rather than move on short notice.

Walmart Chief Operating Officer Donna Morris told the publication that most employees are choosing to return to the office. Employees had to tell Walmart by July 1st if they were planning to relocate and make the move by October 31st.

Employees who cannot make the move will have to leave the company between August 2024 and January 2025, according to Bloomberg.

^{Walmart CEO Doug McMillon. Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images}

Walmart is not the only company that implements a strict RTO policy. Salesforce announced last month that employees across departments must enter the office, weeks after the dismissal of 300 employees. Bank of America threatened with “disciplinary action” for employees who were not personally present in the office.

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Dell asked employees back to the office and said that those who did not will not be promoted. In May, Dell began tracking employee badge swipes and said it would consider the metric when determining how employees were reviewed, rewarded and compensated.

A July survey by Bamboo HR showed that C-suite executives secretly hoped that the RTO mandates would prompt employees to leave and brings about voluntary turnover. Bamboo HR called RTOs “holidays in disguise”.

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