Starbucks to require employees in office four days a week, offer payouts
The Starbucks Center is seen on July 3, 2024 at Starbucks Center in Washington, Washington.
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Starbucks The company announced on Monday that corporate employees will have to go back to the office four days a week from October.
CEO Brian Niccol, instead of going back to the office for an additional day, Starbucks for workers who prefer to leave the company, “Cash Payment with one -time voluntary exit program” offers. Letter to employees.
“We understand that not everyone will participate in this approach,” Niccol wrote in the announcement. He continued: “We listened carefully and thought. But as a company built on human connection, and when the backward return scale is given, we believe it is the right way for Starbucks.”
Under the leadership of Niccol, the coffee chain is trying to reduce US sales. The strategy focused on simplifying the chain menu, improving the coffee shop experience and increasing service times to four minutes per drink.
Starbucks shares fell approximately 2% in the afternoon on Monday after they told Melius Research investors to sell their shares, referring to unproven return. The company’s shares increased by 2% this year and increased the market value to $ 108.7 billion.
The return also affected the company’s corporate labor force. In October, Niccol said that after two months, after two months, Starbucks said they were at risk of being expelled if they did not return to the office for three days a week. In February, the company interrupted 1,100 jobs and said Niccol would not fill hundreds of open positions as part of his efforts to facilitate operations.
Starbucks had approximately 16,000 employees working outside of the store since last year.
Niccol, a resident of Southern California for a long time, did not need to move to the center of Starbucks in Seattle when the company hired it. The company promised to establish a small distant office in Newport Beach, California, in a letter of proposal summarizing the conditions of employment. These days, when he doesn’t travel, he personally works in Seattle by default.
Starbucks is the last company to force corporate workers to spend more time in the office and spend more time. Last year, Walmart Dallas said that they should move to hundreds of employees working in offices in Atlanta and Toronto, and from a distance to the center of Bentonville, Arkansas. A few in April Google The teams told their distant employees to return to the office for three days a week or lose their jobs.
