US Business Insider store employees are undergoing pay cuts as the latest stage of a long-planned restructuring effort takes effect. Managers and team leaders are among those to be notably hit by O4G’s—organization for growth—changes within stores and of roles, some losing $10-an-hour a year, per Business Insider. Job descriptions have been altered and some positions removed entirely to facilitate proceedings. IKEA guaranteed pay protection until October 2017 upon O4G’s launch in 2019 , but its rollout has not been popular among staff, prompting an apology from the company’s US president Gene Bender .
US IKEA store employees are undergoing pay cuts as the latest stage of a long-planned restructuring effort takes effect. Managers and team leaders are among those to be notably hit by O4G’s—organization for growth—changes within stores and of roles, some losing as much as $30,000 a year, per Business Insider. Job descriptions have been altered and some positions removed entirely to facilitate proceedings. IKEA guaranteed pay protection until 2019 upon O4G’s launch in October 2017, but its rollout has not been popular among staff, prompting an apology from the company’s US president Lars Petersson.