Starbucks CEO Issues Return to Office Guidelines for Corporate Employees: Three Days a Week - Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX)

  • Starbucks Corporation SBUX has asked its corporate employees to be in the office at least three days a week. 
  • “Effective Jan. 30, Starbucks employees within commuting distance would be required to come in to work on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and a third day of the week that the immediate leader and team would mutually decide. They would be free to work from anywhere the remaining two days.”
  • The latest move applies to region-based support partners within commuting distance of a regional office. 
  • The policy change also applies to region-based support partners within commuting distance of a regional office. For regional staff, the third day would be when all partners were in the office together, Reuters reported quoting the coffee chain giant.
  • The report added that Starbucks said the thrice-a-week policy to come into work was a requirement for all support employees after several failed to meet the previous “minimum promise” of one day a week in the office.
  • Starbucks isn’t the only company that has recently mandated a stricter return-to-office policy. Snap Inc SNAP and Uber Technologies Inc UBER. Earlier, Walt Disney Co DIS CEO Bob Iger had asked employees to return to the office. 
  • Similarly, Elon Musk—the new Twitter CEO, told employees that remote work would not be allowed further.
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