Remote Workers of the World, Unite

Employers oftentimes may only be hurting themselves by denying their employees’ strong, justifiable preference to work remotely.

An illustration photo of a person working on a laptop from home. Chris Delmas/AFP via Getty Images

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Walmart, which remains America’s largest employer despite Amazon’s rise to the status of world’s largest online seller, announced on May 14 that it will let go of hundreds of its corporate staff and require the majority of those of its 1.6 million employees working remotely to return to the office, some four years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.