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Leaked: Whole Foods CEO tells staff he wants to turn Amazon’s RTO mandate into ‘carrot’ — All-hands meeting offered vague answers to many questions, and failed to explain how five days in office would fix problems that three days in-person couldn’t
Employees of the Amazon-owned grocery subsidiary submitted more than 1,200 questions about the controversial 5-day return-to-office policy ahead of a special all-staff meeting.
“I want us to figure out how do we find the win-win overall in supporting Whole Foods Market, our team members, our customers and beyond,” Buechel said in the all-hands meeting on Tuesday, a recording of which was reviewed by Fortune. But Whole Foods HR exec Brian O’Connell told employees that that number is just a “target” and that the grocer has already “done a lot of good work” in reducing this ratio over the past year. Among the other queries employees had for management were questions about why Whole Foods workers should have to follow Amazon’s mandate when their compensation doesn’t always match of their parent company counterparts, to whether the move was intended to force staff out, to how leadership plans to deal with a potential brain drain.
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