Lowe's deletes hundreds of jobs and moves others to headquarters

Lowe's saber and reorganizes jobs in the Charlotte area, and the moves are expected to affect around 800 employees.

The Charlotte Observer was the first to announce that 207 full-time employees of the company's wharf terminal located in the Charlotte area would be laid off, while approximately 600 full-time employees would leave Wilkesboro, Carolina. North, to settle at Lowe's headquarters in Mooresville.

A spokesman for Lowe confirmed the report and announced that 80 badociates would move from Wiklesboro to Winston-Salem.

"This will bring together teams that perform similar functions, thereby promoting greater collaboration and better business performance," the spokesman told Business Insider in a statement. "Wilkesboro continues to be a contact center and central production office, employing more than 1,300 badociates, and badociates are encouraged to switch jobs, we will offer relocation badistance to qualified badociates and a compensation package. dismissal to any person choosing not to work in the company .. new location. "

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The spokesman for the company described the transfer of 600 employees and dismissals as "independent". With regard to laid-off employees, the spokesman said the company "was striving to retain employees in other positions within the company and that we were working to make sure that their transition takes place as easily as possible ".

The company's human resources representatives are also present at the terminal to answer questions and help employees apply for vacancies.

According to Post and Courier, this is not the first time that a lowe cross-dock terminal, a warehouse in which devices are stored, is taking a hit. In January, about 80 workers were fired from a terminal in the Charleston area.

WBTV indicated that the company had used third-party vendors in Charleston and Houston. With respect to facility personnel where employees organize and store the devices, Lowe's indicates that he is about to appeal to third-party companies.

The move of about 600 employees to Mooresville appears to be an initiative that is consolidating the workforce at the retailer's renovation headquarters. The 1.3 million sq. Ft. Lowe Mooresville Campus workforce will grow from 3,800 to 4,400 as a result of this move.

Reported layoffs are a topic of discussion on Reddit and the redundancy discussion forums.