In a sweeping reorganization, Amazon is integrating WholeFoods more deeply into its broader grocery operations — bringing corporate staff under Amazon’s systems for pay, benefits, and...
· As Amazon works to grow its grocery business, it’s further integrating WholeFoods, which it acquired in 2017 and has mainly operated as a separate business.
· The plan includes a new leadership team and a change that will bring WholeFoods corporate staff under Amazon's employee programs, including performance reviews and paystructure.
· The move, revealed in a leaked internal memo, will see WholeFoods’ corporate employees shift to Amazon’s internal pay and performance management systems. It marks the most significant integration step yet in Amazon’s grocery strategy, which also includes Amazon Fresh and Amazon Go.
· WholeFoods Market employs a divisional organizational structure but with a few characteristics and additional elements that make its composition different from other companies.
The changes at WholeFoods are expected to take place over the next 12 months but won’t impact WholeFoods frontline warehouse and in-store employees, Business Insider reported.
· Amazon.com will extend its corporate staff programs, including paystructure and benefits, to U.S. corporate employees at its WholeFoods chain of supermarkets, aiming to integrate its...
