Walmart Changes Workers Schedules

The hourly workforce of Walmart are receiving a drastic change in their schedules as the retailer hopes to improve the treatment of worker in the United States.

Walmart has been conducting tests for two years and has finally announced its decision on Wednesday to change the schedule of hourly workers in order to make their experiences and lives better.

From now on, Walmart Stores Inc. will be keeping a fix shift for its workers and making huge changes to their schedule in order to improve their daily lives and experience at work. The retail chain made the decision to increase its worker wages in 2015 with the hope of getting better output from them and get better customer experience. However, this was not the only reason for the retailer to raise wages of its employees; it was being pressurized by different labor right agencies and strikes form workers to give them benefits and increase their wages.

Walmart Stores previously had the policy of open shift which is no longer going to be the case, where the managers made the schedules for the employees in their time slots ensuring who was available and when. Now the workers will get two choices, one where they will be given a fixed shift which will give the guarantee of them receiving the same amount of time each day and week. The second choice will be, flexible shifts, where employees will have the chance of creating their own schedule, planning them almost three weeks before.

The retailer is not taking the scheduling change lightly and has decided to even make an application for the workers which will help them to choose and create their schedules according to what they choose from the comfort of their smartphones. Walmart Wholesale is making these changes so that workers have more control over their work hours and feel free, which the labor activists had been seeking for a very long time.

At this moment, managers handle to work schedule of all the workers, which thankfully for the employees is not going to be the case. The retail chain promised to do this last year in efforts to make the treatment and lives of their employees better. The company has already tested the recent change which it announced in 11 of its stores, and now all of its 4600 stores will have this feature by the end of this year. The business has a workforce of 1.3 billion workers, and it has to take care of them to ensure the work is done as efficiently as possible.

Walmart works for the employees of the retailers and helps them to get their rights and benefits that they deserve. The labor group sees this recent change as a victory, but also believes that workers still should get more pay and work hours for better lives.