{"id":18966,"date":"2026-02-24T10:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/?p=18966"},"modified":"2026-02-24T10:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T10:38:09","slug":"while-many-companies-fire-workers-over-ai-walmart-is-doing-the-opposite-training-1-6-million-employees-to-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/24\/while-many-companies-fire-workers-over-ai-walmart-is-doing-the-opposite-training-1-6-million-employees-to-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"While Many Companies Fire Workers Over AI, Walmart Is Doing the Opposite\u2014Training 1.6 Million Employees to Use It"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n<\/p>\n

Most companies see AI as a reason to cut staff. Walmart sees it as a reason to invest in them. The retail giant announced it will provide free AI training to all 1.6 million U.S. and Canadian employees through a partnership with Google\u2019s AI Professional Certification program.<\/p>\n

The push comes as new research shows just 40% of U.S. workers are using AI on the job, and only 5% qualify as \u201cAI fluent.\u201d Those who are AI fluent were found to be 4.5 times more likely to have received higher wages. Donna Morris, Walmart\u2019s chief people officer, called it \u201cunfortunate\u201d when companies use AI to replace workers instead of training them.<\/p>\n

Walmart\u2019s new CEO John Furner doesn\u2019t expect AI to trigger layoffs. \u201cWe\u2019ll have roughly the same number of people we have today,\u201d he told Fortune<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

Sign up for the <\/i>Entrepreneur Daily newsletter to get the news and resources you need to know today to help you run your business better. <\/i>Get it in your inbox.<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n


\n
Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Most companies see AI as a reason to cut staff. Walmart sees it as a reason to invest in them. The retail giant announced it will provide free AI training to all 1.6 million U.S. and Canadian employees through a partnership with Google\u2019s AI Professional Certification program. The push comes as new research shows just […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18967,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18966\/revisions\/18967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imsfund.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}