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One Year After the Chambers Memo, How is Wal-Mart Doing?
A year ago, a confidential corporate memo from Wal-Mart HQ outlined a shocking strategy to control its employee health care costs. With chilling precision, then-VP of Employee Benefits Susan Chambers detailed cutthroat measures to maximize savings -- at terrible costs to their front line workers.
So the next step, of course, was to get it in the New York Times.
One year after this memo, how is Wal-Mart doing? We've compiled a comprehensive report to answer that question. In it you'll find statistics and analysis that paints a grim picture for Wal-Mart's employees.
Read the full memo and more of our one-year anniversary analysis:
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