The Compass Subsidiary Tool shows what’s driving hires at big tech firms

We live in a world of acquisitions. In Big Tech’s race to become Omni-Channel platforms for everything we could ever want to buy—from books to medicine to cars—the Googles and Amazons of the world have picked up companies like lint. Blink and you’ll miss it: another company folded into a vast empire of holdings.

To keep track of this corporate game of thrones, LinkUp Compass offers a Subsidiary Details Tool as one of its applications for visualizing and interpreting job openings around the globe. In one intuitive workbook, you can see the breakdown of a publicly traded parent company’s offspring, how many jobs each is hiring for, and a visualized time series of active jobs over a date range mapping back to 2019. We’ve selected a good example below with the mother of all mother companies: Amazon.

If you’re tracking Amazon and interested in which of its subsidiaries is moving the needle on hiring, you can start at the breakdown of active listings: example below.

Seeing that the tech giant’s second biggest hiring engine after Amazon.com is Whole Foods, move to the Company Detail tool to get a closer look at the grocer’s employment trends. In the graph of Daily Job Listings at Whole Foods below, you’ll notice that hiring is down over 30% since 1/1/23—a likely effect of continued inflationary pressure on grocers.

Next, to see how Whole Foods is competing with other grocers, use the Comparison tool seen below.

Comparing Whole Foods to competitors like Sprouts Farmers Market and Publix, as well as to value brands, ALDI and Winco Foods, we see that grocery hiring is down across the board as consumers feel their food budget particularly pinched by inflation.

Going one slice deeper, we can see a clear example of how hiring changes at a grocer like Whole Foods after a big tech acquisition. Where the other grocers in the Occupational Comparison graph below focus a considerable chunk of their hiring on Transportation, Whole Foods doesn’t. With a built in mega fleet of fulfillment vehicles, Amazon does all the hiring for Whole Foods trucking themselves.

Keep ahead of the company curve and understand the breakdown of hiring at mega-corporations with LinkUp Compass: it’s the job market, now in living color. And stay tuned for more of our Notes from The Evidence Lab, where we showcase the engaging interface and unmatched granularity of our job market dataset.

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