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Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’
- Brian Niccol says staff should be together as much as possible
- Cross-town neighbor Amazon ordered staff to office five days
Brian Niccol
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New Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Brian Niccol thinks his employees should be wherever they need to be to get their jobs done. More often than not, he said, that place is the office.
In Niccol’s first staff address after taking the top job this month, he extolled the “power in having everybody together” but said he wouldn’t tell them what specific days to badge in at the company’s Seattle headquarters or at what time, according to a transcript of his Sept. 10 remarks obtained by Bloomberg News.