Tyson Foods to shut down South Dakota, Illinois offices in 2023

Tyson Foods, one of the world's largest meatpacking companies, is shuttering multiple corporate offices, including one in southeastern South Dakota.

On Wednesday, Tyson released a press brief announcing the company's plans to shut down its Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, Downers Grove, Illinois and Chicago offices and transfer employees to the international meatpacker's world headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas as soon as early 2023.

There are about 1,000 Tyson Foods employees between the Chicago and Dakota Dunes office that will be affected by the relocation, according to an e-mail to the Argus Leader from Derek Burleson, public relations director of Tyson Foods. Burleson also wrote no layoffs are associated with the announcement and the company will provide relocation assistance to employees to relocate to Springdale and northwest Arkansas. The Sioux City Journal reported the moves will affect about 500 Dakota Dunes employees.

The move is being positioned by the company as an expansion of their Arkansas headquarters and a multi-year campus development plan.

“Tyson Foods will expand its world headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas to bring together all of its domestic corporate team members from Chicago and Downers Grove, Ill. and Dakota Dunes, South Dakota into one location. The multi-year project, the details of which will be rolled out over the next several months, will include a number of features to enable connectivity, collaboration, and innovation through sustainable and dynamic spaces including state-of-the-art technology.”