Posted on 01/14/2023 11:09:11 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
Starbucks interim CEO Howard Schultz is annoyed that workers aren’t in the office.
On Wednesday, the coffee company announced that employees who live within commuting distance of its offices would have to go to work three days a week. The policy is slated to take effect on Jan. 30.
Starbucks is asking workers near its corporate headquarters in Seattle to go to the office three days a week: Tuesday, Wednesday, and a third day to be decided by individual teams. Employees living near regional headquarters are also expected to commute three times a week, though the company said local managers could decide the best days to bring people back.
Starbucks did not immediately reply to a request for comment.
A ‘privilege’ In a post on the Starbucks website, Schultz said that working from home had hurt the company’s culture. He argued that Starbucks used “rituals,” like “coffee tastings” and “storytellings,” to build a sense of camaraderie among employees, and that returning to the office would “revive and reinvent” such exercises.
Schultz also wrote that remote work had “unintended consequences,” fearing that the coffee company was “losing the art of collaboration,” as well as “a connection to a shared mission, something bigger.”
But the Starbucks CEO also betrayed annoyance that employees had ignored an earlier request to come back to the office. Schultz wrote that “each of us made a promise to each other to be in the office between one to two days a week” in a shift to hybrid work last year. Yet he added that, according to badge swipes, “it’s clear that a good number of SSC partners are not meeting their minimum promise.” (Starbucks calls its employees “partners,” and its headquarters the “Starbucks Support Center,” or “SSC.”)
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“Schultz also wrote that remote work had “unintended consequences,” fearing that the coffee company was “losing the art of collaboration,” as well as “a connection to a shared mission, something bigger.””
Stupid, it is just a job.
I hope it is just the engineers working from home and not the baristas with the gender studies degrees.
The paradigm has changed and some people just refuse to accept it. Office work as it used to be is now over.
At a certain point, you can’t just be a smiling, well dressed figurehead, you have to be The Boss, and issue demands of the position. “Now Hear This!!”
LOL..LOL...LOL..
Schultzie needs to stop using B.S. terms such as ‘re-invent’, “art of collaboration”, “shared mission” and just hire Conservatives with a work ethic instead of woke, tattooed weedheads. Problem solved.
Although I understand…even sympathize with…Schultz’s predicament, the fact is that the corporate culture that he fostered is one of the causes of this behavior,
I will not return to the office full time. Leftist leaders of companies blew it when they supported pandemic tyranny. They can live with the new world of their creation.
I thought he quit after his last woke debacle. Letting the homeless into the bathrooms, or “engaging” customers in a “discussion of race and gender,” I can’t remember which one he said he was quitting after.
They should lease office space at the local golf course because that’s where there work from home employees are spending their days
It highlighted how useless so many middle managers are.
> Letting the homeless into the bathrooms... <
I think you’ve hit upon the real reason Schultz wants everyone to return to work.
Somebody’s got to clean those bathrooms.
It turns out they were being watched and many companies which paig salaries to these remote scum are now demanding repayment of those wages. A court ordered for the companies.
Unfortunately federal employees have been running the scam for decades. How do we, their employer get our money back?
Nice to see the woke idealism explode in their faces
No it’s coming back. There are benefits to being in the same building able to converse quickly and having a shared work experience. We spec’d out a new feature this week in a way that just can’t happen in remote work. I was helping a fellow QA deal with a thing, mostly involving how MS hides some useful information, and one of the devs said “I wonder if we could...” dragged in another dev and the designer and 15 minutes later we’re all “yeah, this is a good idea, and pretty easy” and we’re going to put it in this release. If the other QA and I were talking on Teams this couldn’t have happened. Much as we might not want to admit it a lot of that “buzz word bingo” type stuff that really does contribute to the work can only happen in offices where people work together.
You can’t serve coffee from home ?
Not true. The economy is starting to slow. Elon Musk fired thousands of workers at Twitter. So Howard Schultz is in the position of firing workers who refuses to show up to work. The party's over.
Never.
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