Starbucks has constructed a 4,624-square-foot workplace in Newport Seaside, California, which is a five-minute drive from CEO Brian Niccol’s Orange County dwelling.
Based on paperwork and pictures reviewed by Enterprise Insider, the Thirteenth-floor workplace was accomplished on July 2 and designed by Gensler, a number one architectural firm that additionally designed the Chase Middle in San Francisco and Shanghai Tower, China’s tallest constructing.
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A ground plan for the workplace, seen by BI, instructs Gensler and the contracting workforce, Pacific Tusk Builders, to construct an area with “luxurious” accents, together with “white oak” flooring and customized counter tops. It additionally asks for “elegant lighting.”
Plans for the workplace have been first disclosed in an August 2024 U.S. Securities and Alternate Fee submitting outlining Niccol’s compensation package deal. The submitting said that Starbucks would start planning to determine a “small distant workplace” in Newport Seaside and “make use of an assistant” for Niccol of his selecting.
“This workplace location might be maintained on the expense of the corporate,” the submitting reads.
Starbucks instructed BI that different staff can use the brand new workplace, although it is unclear what number of different staff might be working from the workplace, how lengthy the area took to assemble, and the way a lot it value Starbucks to construct.
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Starbucks additionally awarded Niccol a $1.6 million base wage, a $10 million signing bonus, and a $75 million fairness grant over the following three years in his compensation package deal.
Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol. Picture by Robin Marchant/Getty Photographs
Niccol had beforehand been commuting on the firm’s expense, flying 995 miles on the corporate’s non-public jet from his dwelling in California to firm headquarters in Seattle, Washington, to work from the workplace at the very least thrice per week as a part of the corporate’s return-to-office mandate.
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Earlier this month, Niccol despatched a letter to staff stating that company workers might be required to return to the workplace 4 days per week beginning in October, a rise from the three-day schedule set in 2023. He wrote that staff do their “greatest work” when they’re collectively.
Staff can select to obtain a money buyout of an undisclosed quantity if they like to go away the corporate as a substitute of working within the workplace.
“The default for assist companions must be working in individual, in a Starbucks workplace,” Niccol wrote within the letter. “We perceive not everybody will agree with this method.”
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Niccol turned Starbucks CEO in September after main Chipotle for six years as CEO. Below his management, Starbucks has tried to show round slumping gross sales with a “Again to Starbucks” turnaround plan that has resulted in cuts to its menu, much less wait time for espresso, and prospects’ names written on cups in Sharpie.
On Tuesday, Starbucks additionally reported monetary outcomes for its 13-week fiscal quarter ending June 29. International retailer gross sales dropped 2%, with North American retailer gross sales additionally falling by 2%, marking the sixth consecutive quarter of declining gross sales. Internet income, nonetheless, elevated 4% to $9.5 billion when in comparison with the identical time final yr.
The earnings report additionally talked about that Starbucks opened 308 web shops within the quarter, for a complete of 41,097 international shops.
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Starbucks has constructed a 4,624-square-foot workplace in Newport Seaside, California, which is a five-minute drive from CEO Brian Niccol’s Orange County dwelling.
Based on paperwork and pictures reviewed by Enterprise Insider, the Thirteenth-floor workplace was accomplished on July 2 and designed by Gensler, a number one architectural firm that additionally designed the Chase Middle in San Francisco and Shanghai Tower, China’s tallest constructing.
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