Tyson Foods will relocate around 1,000 corporate positions from areas of Chicago as well as South Dakota to its headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas.

One of the world’s biggest meat producers said Wednesday that corporate staff at its Chicago and Downers Grove, Illinois, locations and Dakota Dunes, South Dakota, office will start to relocate early next year.

The consolidation of corporate offices is intended to allow for closer collaboration and no layoffs will accompany the shift, the company said. Tyson plans to expand the headquarters and do some remodeling in Arkansas.

The parenting company of Jimmy Dean and Ball Park products employs about 137,000 workers worldwide. The announcement follows some recent high-profile corporate moves, including naming John Tyson, the great-grandson of the company’s founder, as the chief financial officer.

Chicago has also had a few corporate departures during recent months.

Boeing Co. announced in May that it would plan to move its headquarters from Chicago to Arlington, Virginia. The next month, construction equipment maker Caterpillar said it was going to move its headquarters from the Chicago suburbs to Texas.

Citadel hedge fund CEO Ken Griffin, a billionaire who has been a vocal critic of Illinois’ Democratic governor and of crime rates in Chicago, also recently had his company's headquarters moved to Miami.

In a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago last month, McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski said he often fields calls from mayors and governors trying to get him to move McDonald’s headquarters out of Chicago. Kempczinski claims McDonald’s doesn't have any plans to leave, but they have struggled with crime and homelessness in its Chicago restaurants.

“While it may wound our civic pride to hear it, there is a general sense out there that our city is in crisis,” Kempczinski said, adding that it is becoming more difficult for the company to recruit promising employees.