‘Accountability process’ | Starbucks warns staff: Defy our RTO mandate and risk being fired

Starbucks has warned its corporate staff that violating its three-days-a-week in-office policy could result in being fired.

First reported by Bloomberg News Monday, an internal message was distributed to the company, setting out Starbucks’ stricter stance on in-office work effective January 2025.

“We are continuing to support our leaders as they hold their teams accountable to our existing hybrid work policy,” the return-to-office (RTO) memo stated.

Starbucks is also adjusting the terms of its three-day in-office policy as of January 2025, with staff no longer mandated to come into the office on a Tuesday—a previous stipulation of the RTO policy.