Walmart CEO wants everyone to arrive on the other side ‘

From bankers to consulting companies, business leaders quickly restructure as the adoption of the AI ​​becomes critical of the mission. CEOs of global companies expect IA investments to be more than double in two years, and 61% actively adopt large -scale AI agents, according to an IBM study in May.

“It is very clear that the AI ​​will literally change all jobs,” Walmart CEO, Doug McMillon, said this week during a working conference with other commercial executives, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

And AI has already changed the world retailer, which has developed cat robots to help customers, suppliers and traders. The company has also created new roles such as an “agent developer”, whose post description is to create AI tools to help automate workflow throughout the business.

However, as IA automates certain tasks for Walmart workers, this will not be translated into mass layoffs.

“Our goal is to create the opportunity for everyone to go to the other side,” said McMillon. Some jobs and tasks at Walmart will be eliminated, but others will be added, he added.

Walmart plans to maintain a number of heads of around 2.1 million workers worldwide over the next three years, although the mixture of these jobs should change, the director of people of Walmart, Donna, said The newspaper.

To help determine how to train and prepare workers, the company follows the types of jobs to see who increases, decreases and holds stable.

The retention of the workforce is a striking distinction of other corporate messages recently.

The CEO of Accenture, Julie Sweet, said on Thursday that the rapid adoption of the AI ​​led the layoffs this year and warned that more outings were possible when Reskilling employees are not viable.

Earlier this month, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said that the company had reduced 4,000 customer support jobs this year due to efficiency gains directly linked to AI technology.

And in May, the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, said that AI could eliminate about half of all the work of the entry -level collar. Cups could arrive within five years and lead to an increase in unemployment up to 20%, he added.

But the CEO of Openai, Sam Altman, said last month that he envious of young people, because in 10 years, college graduates will work “completely new, exciting and super well remunerated work” in space, and that the current work at the start of their careers will be “boring” by comparison.

We do not know how AI will change Walmart’s workforce in three years. The Director of People, Morris, said that business leaders had to make their “homework” to find these answers.

But according to the CEO of Walmart, the company will continue to rely on face to face interaction even if it is based more on AI.

In January, the Symbotic technological company announced that Walmart would pay him $ 520 million to develop a robotics platform compatible with AI to improve the convenience of shopping via the accelerated online collection and delivery in stores.

Other suppliers have also offered robot workers to the company. However, “until we serve humanoid robots and have the capacity to spend money, we serve people,” said McMillon. “We are going to put people in front of people.”

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