Starbucks is requiring some remote workers to return to its headquarters and increasing the number of days that corporate employees are required to work in an office.
In a letter to employees posted on Monday, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol said corporate employees would need to be in the office four days a week starting in early October instead of three days a week.
The Seattle-based company said that all corporate “people leaders” must be based in either Seattle or Toronto within 12 months. That is a change from February, when it required vice presidents to relocate to Seattle or Toronto.
Layoffs are next. That’s the how these things go.
This is kinda the cheaper method, much less severance to pay when it’s a voluntary separation - from the linked article:
This is lately referred to as a ‘stealth layoff.’
Yeah, that’s why layoffs come next. They get the cheap ones out of the way first.
Yep, this isn’t a we want everyone to be closer to the office. This is a let’s see how many will quit first before we layoff the rest on our list.