Starbucks forces office work to make employees quit, no goodbye bonus

I was reading a news from business insider and although I don't work at Starbucks, I really feel for those that are getting affected by this RTO (Return to office) mandate.

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Edited this image but picked from the same source so declaring as not my own

The coffee company told their corporate workers, the people who work in their offices, not the stores we the customers visit, they told them they must come into the office 4 days a week now. This is not something they could negotiate regardless of situation.

Yes office work 4 days a week seems pretty average since some do way more but that doesn't make it easy for everyone. Before this new mandate, the office workers in there could work from home more. Many of them did a great job that way. And we've seen he company thriving so I wonder why it's necessary and making it even mandatory for the people to show up. It's getting harder to keep coming to a particular place to work that many times, life distractions and burdens keep increasing but well, employers will care anyways.

The used to have the leverage of working remotely but now starbucks is forcing them back with no real reason. The workers are angry and if I was in their position I would too but if you're a worker in such organization, freedom of choice is not part of your abilities sadly.

The workers said “We already proved we can work from home. This is unfair.”

They claimed they cared about them but now they're doing the exact opposite. Power is only to the bosses and they do as they please regardless of the negative effects to the workers and that's what's wrong with work right now.

Some workers made flyers and shared the flyers with coworkers. They made their statements clear,

This is the wrong direction. Please stop.

There's a conspiracy well I call it that because i haven't had the evidence to prove it but some of the workers believe Starbucks is doing this to make people quit on their own, instead of firing them and that way, the company doesn’t have to pay anything to them.

They're basically taking away people's choices using a subtle mandate which they're well aware is difficult to do. Perhaps som workers might end up quitting but it's so sad and unfortunate that this had to happen.

They treat workers like they're replaceable, and they don't listen they just act according to their own interest and the interest of those actually doing the job.

Starbucks always claims they care about people, they even call workers partners but this act is as shady as can be. If you're a Starbucks lover it's not about a goo coffee I'm talking about what's happening in the office not the shop.

I really wish things could be better but this is the situation.