Starbucks lays off 224 corporate staff and remote workers

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    "excerpt": "Starbucks , America’s largest coffee chain, has announced it will lay off 224 corporate and remote employees from its Seattle headquarters, according to a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice obtained by The Independent. “The expected date of the first separations will be October 19, 2026, with all separations completed by November 1, 2026,” the company wrote in the Thursday notice. The cuts represent a small slice of the company’s global workforce of 381,000 people as of September 2025, according to Starbucks ’ fiscal 2025 annual report . The company laid off 120 employees at its Seattle headquarters who chose not to move to Nashville when Starbucks opens a new corporate office there in 2027, according to the notice. The other 104 were remote workers . This is the eighth Washington layoff the company has done over the past two years, according to the state’s WARN database - 2,538 employees were laid off during that period. Nearly 1,000 Starbucks employees lost their jobs in December 2025, when the company made significant cuts at its Seattle headquarters and roasting facilities, according to Washington’s WARN database . Starbucks’ layoffs were announced soon after current CEO Brian Niccol took over the company after it fired his predecessor, Laxman Narasimhan. Niccol arrived with a reputation for turning around struggling companies. Niccol arrived with...",
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