Inside Walmart's new 350-acre HQ

Fortune

Walmart is making a big change in how it operates—and it starts in Bentonville, Arkansas. Fortune gets an inside look at the retail giant’s brand-new, 350-acre campus.

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00:00This 350-acre campus is the site of Walmart's new headquarters, a huge bet on in-person

00:06work.

00:07This home base is a big tool for talent attraction as well, and it's all taking shape here in

00:11Bentonville, Arkansas.

00:13The ability to recruit talent is so much easier now that we have built our campus.

00:20People really have the desire to come together.

00:22With over $600 billion in annual revenue and 1.6 million U.S. employees, Walmart is both

00:28the nation's largest company and its largest private employer.

00:31It's really easy for us to decide we're staying in Bentonville, the place that built us.

00:35In the last 10 years, quite a few large companies have inaugurated new headquarters.

00:41Was there anything out there, you know, common mistake that you said, you know, you can learn

00:45from others in advance, was there anything that you said, okay, well, let's avoid that?

00:49We knew that the lines between work and life continue to blur, and great company campuses

00:55can be very productive spaces and stay alive in the evenings and the weekends.

01:00So for us, we knew that we didn't want to kind of single ourselves away.

01:03In fact, we went all the way in the other direction, and we've really tried to make it feel like

01:08this campus is great for Walmart, and great for Bentonville.

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