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.

The coffee giant requires its corporate workers to be in the offices in a hybrid work model, at least three times a week. Niccol made it clear that Starbucks will not dictate which days employees must be in the office, leaving them free to choose.

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", Starbucks wrote in a statement to 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.

Walmart and Dell, both mass employers, are also on the path to a stricter return to the office. On the other hand, we have probably the most visible and loud advocate of the "work from anywhere" policy, which is Spotify. He recently emphasized once again that he is sticking to his work model and thereby somehow criticized other companies that are returning to hybrid models or even completely back to "old, classic models" of work.