Starbucks lays off 1,100 corporate employees as coffee chain streamlines

Starbucks plans to laic disconnected 1,100 firm employees globally arsenic caller Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol streamlines operations.

In a missive to employees released Monday, Niccol said the institution volition pass employees who are being laid disconnected by mid-day Tuesday. Niccol said Starbucks is besides eliminating respective 100 unfastened and unfilled positions.

"Our intent is to run much efficiently, summation accountability, trim complexity and thrust amended integration," Niccol wrote successful the letter.

Starbucks has 16,000 firm enactment employees worldwide, but that includes immoderate employees who aren't impacted, similar roasting and warehouse staff. Baristas successful the company's stores are not included successful the layoffs.

Niccol said successful January that firm layoffs would beryllium announced by aboriginal March. He said each enactment indispensable beryllium overseen by idiosyncratic who tin marque decisions portion the the Seattle java elephantine reduces the complexity of its operation and eliminates silos wrong the institution that dilatory communication.

"Our size and operation tin dilatory america down, with excessively galore layers, managers of tiny teams and roles focused chiefly connected coordinating work," Niccol wrote.

Starbucks hired Niccol past autumn to crook astir sluggish sales. He has said helium wants to amended work times - particularly during the greeting unreserved - and reestablish stores arsenic assemblage gathering places.

Niccol is besides cutting items from Starbucks' menu and experimenting with its ordering algorithms to amended grip its premix of mobile, drive-thru and in-store orders.

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