{"id":1013278,"date":"2026-06-09T12:08:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013278"},"modified":"2026-06-09T12:08:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T06:38:54","slug":"americas-largest-private-sector-employer-walmart-has-a-message-for-its-2-million-plus-employees-on-ai-replacing-their-jobs-technology-will-power-our","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/09\/americas-largest-private-sector-employer-walmart-has-a-message-for-its-2-million-plus-employees-on-ai-replacing-their-jobs-technology-will-power-our\/","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s largest private-sector employer Walmart has a message for its 2 million-plus employees on AI replacing their jobs: Technology will power our &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart has told its more than 2.1 million employees that AI is meant to improve their jobs, not replace them, reports Financial Times. Speaking at Walmart&#8217;s annual Associates Week gathering in Arkansas, company leaders said technology will play a bigger role in the future of work, but employees will remain at the center of the business. The comments come at a time when concerns are growing about AI&#8217;s impact on jobs across industries. As quoted in the report, addressing thousands of workers, Walmart Chief People Officer Donna Morris said the company&#8217;s future would be shaped by both technology and people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Technology will power our future. But our associates will lead it,&#8221; Morris said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walmart has told its more than 2.1 million employees that AI is meant to improve their jobs, not replace them, reports Financial Times. Speaking at Walmart&#8217;s annual Associates Week gathering in Arkansas, company leaders said technology will play a bigger role in the future of work, but employees will remain at the center of the business. The comments come at a time when concerns are growing about AI&#8217;s impact on jobs across industries. As quoted in the report, addressing thousands of workers, Walmart Chief People Officer Donna Morris said the company&#8217;s future would be shaped by both technology and people. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013279,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013278\/revisions\/1013279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}