Starbucks’ Previously remotely took a house in Seattle, and all staff ordered 4 days a week

In a letter to the employees sent on Monday, Starbucks President and CEO Brian Niccol said corporate workers will be Need to be in the office Four days a week, starting in early October instead of three days a week.

Seattle-based company, all corporate “People’s Leaders” have been located in 12 months or said to be located in Toronto. This is a change in February when the vice presidents are required to move to Seattle or Toronto.

Starbucks said they did not want individual workers working next to those leaders. However, the company said that all of the future roles and lateral movements will require workers to locate in Seattle or Toronto.

“We restore our culture of our first, because when we are together, we are doing our best in one place. We share hard problems, create difficult problems,” said Niccol wrote in a letter.

Niccol said that employees who choose not to be relocated are employees that are suitable for a one-time voluntary output program, which is paid.

Many employees enjoy working from home during pandemic, Call for employees It is growing to return to offices over the past year. Great employers as AmazonAT & T and federal government They demanded the workers to work five days a week on company websites. Competition for completely remote jobs is fierce.

Starbucks spokesman Lori Torgerson said that currently there is no number of employees working as “People’s leaders.” There are Starbucks 16,000 corporate support employees In the world, but it includes coffee roasters and warehouses.

Nicol was Not required to move to Seattle When it is hired when leading to Starbucks last August. Instead, the company said that he would help him build an office near the Newport Beach, California and use a corporate jet for switching to Seattle.

Since then, Niccol bought a house in Seattle and is often seen at Torgerson’s headquarters.

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AP work writer Kathy Bussewitz contributed from New York.