Starbucks requires a presence in the offices and threatens to fire you if you don't follow the rules

When Starbucks' new CEO, Brian Niccol, took the reins of the company in September of this year, there was a lot of media coverage of his ride to the job. If you haven't been following the story, Niccol travels about 1,600 kilometers in his private jet to get to the company's headquarters, which is located in Seattle. Niccol lives in California, where his previous employer is Chipotle.

Kavni velikan od svojih korporativnih delavcev zahteva prisotnost v pisarnah po hibridnem modelu dela, in sicer vsaj trikrat na teden. Niccol je jasno povedal, da Starbucks ne bo določil, na katere dneve morajo zaposleni biti v pisarni, temveč jim pušča svobodo, da si to izberejo sami.

Nevertheless, this does not mean that employees can ignore the three-day obligation or adapt the rules in any way.

The Bloomberg News portal reports that Starbuck will officially launch its hybrid work model in January of next year. Work from home policy or it doesn't remotely change, it just formalizes it a bit more. The email received by Starbackus employees also states the consequences of not following the hybrid model in question. Among other things, one of the possible consequences is the termination of the employment relationship.

“Our leaders hold their teams accountable for following the existing hybrid working policy and have our full support“, je Starbucks zapisal v izjavi za Bloomberg.

Compared to some other companies that are returning to mandatory daily presence in offices, Starbucks' model is still quite mild. In September, for example, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy told employees that starting January 2, they would have to be in the office five days a week. As expected, the majority of comments on this move came from corporate employees.

Tudi Walmart in Dell, oba masovna zaposlovalca, sta na poti k bolj striktnemu vračanju v pisarne. Na drugi strani pa imamo verjetno najbolj vidnega in glasnega zagovornika politike “dela od kjerkoli”, to je Spotify. Ta je pred kratkim še enkrat več poudaril, da ostaja pri svojem modelu dela in s tem nekako kritiziral ostala podjetja, ki se vračajo na hibridne modele ali celo povsem nazaj “na stare, klasične modele” dela.