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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Anne d'Innocenzio

How Walmart plans to prepare America's largest private workforce for an AI-driven future

US Walmart CEO Workplace Q&A - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

As artificial intelligence and demographic changes reshape the U.S. job market, the nation's largest private employer is trying to identify the skills its workers and the broader labor force might need for the future.

Walmart on Thursday hosted more than 300 workplace experts and representatives from other companies participating in the Skills-First Workforce Initiative, a project to develop and fill stable jobs based on what people know how to do instead of whether they attended college.

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