Starbucks is cutting 252 US corporate employees between the coffee giant's Seattle headquarters and remote positions.
The latest layoffs under CEO Brian Niccol will begin July 17, 2026, and continue through February 2027, according to a state regulatory filing Monday.
The cuts mainly affect support center staff at the downtown Seattle headquarters.
Senior corporate roles are not safe. Financial analysts, legal specialists, and even nine vice presidents are being nixed, Seattle Times reported.
The coffee giant will keep support offices in Seattle and New York, along with its new Nashville hub, where it recently leased most of a shiny six-story office building.
The employees affected by the layoffs are not part of a labor union, according to the notice, and they also cannot use seniority to replace other employees within the company.
Starbucks said on Friday the job losses are part of its turnaround plan as it tries to cut costs, simplify the business and return to stronger profits.
The layoffs will not affect baristas or other coffee shop workers, the company said.
Starbucks is cutting 252 US corporate employees between the coffee giant's Seattle headquarters and remote positions
While the chain's headquarters are in Seattle, new support offices are being leased in Nashville
Starbucks has also started reviewing its international corporate workforce - raising the prospect that more jobs could be at risk.
'We are taking further action under the Back to Starbucks strategy, building on our strong business momentum and working to return the company to durable, profitable growth,' a Starbucks spokesperson told CNBC.
'Leaders have taken a hard look at their respective functions to further sharpen focus, prioritize work, reduce complexity, and lower costs.'
Starbucks said severance expenses and a reassessment of its office footprint will result in roughly $400 million in restructuring charges.
The coffee chain expects to record about $280 million in noncash charges tied to the impairment of long-lived assets, along with another $120 million in cash charges connected to the layoffs.
It marks the third round of job cuts since Brian Niccol took over as CEO. Starbucks first cut 1,100 jobs in February 2025 before eliminating another 900 nonretail positions seven months later as part of a broader $1 billion restructuring plan.
Starbucks is laying off another 300 US corporate employees and shutting some regional support offices in the latest round of cuts under CEO Brian Niccol
The Starbucks global corporate headquarters in Seattle
Homeless encampments are set up around Seattle
The coffee giant said the job losses are part of its turnaround plan as it tries to cut costs, simplify the business and return to stronger profits
Seattle's socialist mayor Katie Wilson has previously joked about being happy at the prospect of wealthy residents leaving the city after Washington state’s new 10 percent tax on individuals earning over $1 million annually.
After the announcement, Starbucks said it would relocate about 2,000 corporate jobs from Seattle to the new headquarters in Nashville.
Fears about the city's economic prospects have been compounded by crime problem after Wilson allegedly told cops not to arrest people doing illegal substances on the streets.
A 36-year-old local, who gave his name as Brandon, previously told a Daily Mail reporter that Wilson's stance was 'cool'.
Brandon, who lives on the streets because he prefers them to his taxpayer-funded apartment, said of Wilson's plans: 'They tried to do that already during Covid. We went buck wild! I'm not gonna lie. We blew it up.'