Posted on 09/21/2024 6:01:57 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Starbucks (SBUX) CEO Brian Niccol has a stern message for his employees, and many may not be too thrilled about it.
As companies across the country are starting to cut back on remote work, with some even forcing employees to return to working in the office five days a week, Niccol revealed in his first staff address as Starbucks CEO that there is “power in having everybody together,” according to a new report from Bloomberg.
“My point of view is we should be together as much as possible,” said Niccol in his address. “You need to figure out where you need to be to get your job done, then do that. We’re all adults here.”
Starbucks has a mandate, which was enforced in January 2023, requiring corporate staff to work from the office three days a week, and that policy still stands.
Niccol also claimed during the address that in order for the company to succeed, employees should be working in person “more often than not.”
“This is not a game of tracking. This is a game of winning,” said Niccol. “I care about seeing everybody here succeed, and if success requires us being together more often than not, let’s be together more often.”
Niccol, who was formerly CEO at Chipotle, officially began his role as CEO of Starbucks on Sept. 9 after being appointed to the position last month. He recently faced backlash on social media for his remote work accommodations.
In a recent filing to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Starbucks revealed that Niccol “will not be required to relocate” to the company’s headquarters in Seattle, Washington, and will instead commute from his home in Newport Beach, California, to the office via private jet to perform his “duties and responsibilities.”
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Is this possibly because these companies are on the hook for the office space and might as well get some use out of it?
Imagine what would happen if they did.
In NYC, retail tax revenue is way down. Big companies get big tax breaks for building big buildings there; part of those breaks are paid for by the employees using the subway, eating at restaurants, taking cabs, shopping in town, spending big at the bar after work, etc etc.
In the very back of my mind, I recall how much leverage Big Corp had in coercing people to get vaccinated when they were all on-site: “get jabbed or get fired.” I wonder if the ducks are being lined up for the sequel.
So the managers want to work from home, but need the baristas to show up to work. And this guy is going to commute 3000 miles a day via private jet? Or is that 3 days a week? I guess they’ll have to find other ways to make up their responsibility to the planet.
https://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/planet/
White collared workers think they are special and deserve special treatment. Let the low lifes go to work every day
So, is the CEO commuting via private jet three days a week like everyone else? Or only when he needs to?
Hire others to take their place?
If employees working in an office were so essential to these companies, then these CEOs would have fought like hell against the stupid Branch Covidian lockdowns instead of caving like sheep in 2020 and sending everyone to work from home in the first place.
that can be expensive. also, there’s the question of one’s own dignity. why offer your talents in that kind of perverse bargain?
I would predict that workers will only begin to accept going back to work when the COVID work-from-home time is matched by time without work.
The evil elitists knew what they were doing. They have sewn the same discontent as they did with Roaring Women in the 60’s - and the best part is that it doesn’t cost them anything.
they were doing what they were told.
They can’t Zoom in from their local Starbuck$ ?
That's exactly what I'll do. I've been looking for an excuse to get into house flipping anyhow.
Not exactly. I think that the big bosses are afraid that commercial real estate will completely crater, causing a severe recession as the ripple effects spread. Therefore, it is a good idea to move back to the office. Also, there is a worry that workers are consciously or unconsciously slacking off as they work from home in bunny slippers.
And more often that not, the rare instances of my bosses who knowledgeable, respected their employees, and delivered results would be pushed out by the lesser performing incompetents., and again in my own personal experience,I have found this to be much more common with publicly traded companies.
IMHO, publicly traded companies are short sighted to the long term detriment of the company, but are forced into this strategy because quarterly growth is the priority of the stock holders, which in turn attracts CEOs who enact short term quick fixes to maximize their compensation before they get booted by the stockholders.
The "return to the office" mandate is on of these quick fixes.
“So, is the CEO commuting via private jet three days a week like everyone else? Or only when he needs to?”
I suspect to some degree of not being hypocritical he will fly in Mondays, be in the Seattle office Tuesday - Thursday and fly back to So Cal Thursday night or Friday.
Brian Niccol is right. Why should his corporate employees work from home? They're more efficient working at the corporate office. If they're not a fan of that arrangement, they're free to find employment elsewhere.
That's what Elon Musk did at Twitter.
A CEO who “does what he’s told” has no business running a company.
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