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.
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.