The nation’s largest employers are putting their workers on notice

Amazon and Walmart, the nation’s two largest private employers, swelled with hundreds of thousands of new workers in recent years as they battled for larger slices of consumer pocketbooks. Amazon said in 2021 that its workforce had grown to more than 1.6 million people and boasted of being “the largest job-creator in the U.S.” Walmart said last year that plans for 150 new stores would create new jobs across the United States.