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Originally published corporate.walmart.com. Walmart ranked No. 22 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list in 2021. Big changes are often slow going. Not because we want them to be, but because it takes time to make massive impact. Since 2006, Walmart and Sam’s Club have been donating food…
Originally published at corporate.walmart.com. Walmart ranked No. 22 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list in 2021. Walmart has made a major milestone: We are now more than halfway toward our goal to reduce or avoid 1 billion metric tons (a gigaton) of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from…
With the “great resignation” still underway and labor shortages at an all-time high, it appears that American companies now have one more entity competing against them in the search for talented, qualified people who want to work: the U.S. Army. Tim Stelloh of NBC News reported that “the Army is…
America’s largest retailer is attempting a surprising new strategy to help the company attract and retain top-level talent. Walmart (No. 22 on The DiversityInc Top 50 Companies for Diversity list in 2021) has announced that it will now begin covering full tuition plus the cost of books for its workers…
On Thursday, May 6, DiversityInc announced our annual list of the Top 50 Companies for Diversity. This highly influential and well-regarded ranking of diversity and inclusion practices in corporate America is not just a vitally important benchmark of how the largest employers in our country are doing when it comes…
A coalition of leading CEOs and organizations are coming together today to announce the formation of OneTen, an organization that will combine the power of these committed American companies to upskill, hire and promote one million Black Americans over the next 10 years into family-sustaining jobs with opportunities for advancement. In…
Over the past few months, COVID-19 has changed almost every aspect of business. Furloughs, layoffs, and mandatory work-from-home orders have forced corporations to reassess “business as usual.” The overarching lesson adaptable companies have embodied is that the way things have always been done need not be the way things always…
Filings for unemployment insurance have risen to an unprecedented 2.3 million due to the COVID-19 crisis. Less than two weeks ago, that number was at 281,000 — which was already alarmingly close to the 299,000 previous record in 2017. Though unemployment rates have surged more than eight times the country’s…
2020 Presidential Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, misstated the locations of two tragic shootings as he extended his sympathy on Sunday. He made the remarks while fundraising near San Diego. Biden’s comments were made at businessman Mark Arabo’s home when he erroneously stated: “the tragic events in Houston today and also…
Puerto Rican rap star, Bad Bunny, has been a massive proponent for education reform in Puerto Rico. He partnered with Walmart and released a collection of libretas (notebooks) which come in a few different designs based on Bad Bunny’s art on his records. One of the notebooks has a picture…
