Starbucks’ head office is seen at the Starbucks Center on July 3, 2024 in Seattle, Washington.
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Starbucks Employees of the company will have to return to the office four days a week from October, the company announced on Monday.
For workers who prefer to leave the company instead of returning to the office for an additional day, Starbucks offers a “unique voluntary outing program with cash payment,” CEO Brian Niccol said in a letter to the employees.
“We understand that not everyone will agree with this approach,” wrote Niccol in the announcement. “We have listened and thought carefully. But as a business, we build on human connection, and taking into account the turnaround scale, we think it is the right way for Starbucks.”
Under Niccol’s leadership, the coffee chain tried to reverse its sales in the United States. Its strategy focused on simplifying the chain menu, improving coffee experience and reducing service times to four minutes by drink.
The recovery also assigned the business workforce of the company. In October, a little more than two months after the start of Niccol’s mandate, Starbucks told workers that they were likely to be dismissed if they did not return to the office three days a week. In February, the company reduced 1,100 jobs and said that it would not fulfill hundreds of positions open in the context of Niccol’s efforts to rationalize its operations.
Starbucks had around 16,000 employees working outside last year’s stores.
Niccol, a long -standing resident of Southern California, was not required to move to Starbucks headquarters in Seattle when the company hired him. In its letter of tenders describing its conditions of employment, the company is committed to establishing a small distant office in Newport Beach, California. These days, he failed in person in Seattle when he does not travel.