Starbucks office workers will risk losing their jobs if they fail to comply with the company\u2019s hybrid work requirement that employees are in the office three times a week.<\/p>\n
According to the Wall Street Journal an internal message sent to employees warns that an \u201caccountability process\u201d<\/a> will start in January 2025. Consequences for non-compliance are \u201cup to, and including, separation\u201d, according to the company message.<\/p>\n \u201cWe are continuing to support our leaders as they hold their teams accountable to our existing hybrid work policy,\u201d a spokesperson told Bloomberg News<\/a>, which first reported the company message.<\/p>\n The message said the company will no longer make Tuesday a required in-office day, leaving it up to managers to determine the best day for their teams. The three-day office policy has been in place for two years.<\/p>\n Starbucks\u2019s new CEO, Brian Niccol, has faced criticism<\/a> for taking a corporate jet to commute nearly 1,000 miles from his home in Newport Beach, California, to Starbucks headquarters office in Seattle, Washington, three times a week. Starbucks claimed the CEO will meet or exceed the company\u2019s hybrid work requirements. Niccol assumed the role in September 2024 after departing as CEO of Chipotle. At Chipotle, Niccol required employees to be in the office four days a week.<\/p>\n Last month, Niccol said employees should be wherever they need to be to perform their jobs, claiming that the office is most often that place.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not a game of tracking. This is a game of winning,\u201d said Niccol during a forum to employees<\/a> at Starbucks headquarters. \u201cI care about seeing everybody here succeed, and if success requires us being together more often than not, let\u2019s be together more often.\u201d<\/p>\n Corporations have been enacting return-to-office mandates this year as remote and hybrid work became common at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n