Starbucks to eliminate 224 Seattle corporate and remote positions
SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGWashington State Employment Security Department· filed August 20, 2026View the filing ↗
What we know
Location: Seattle, WA (Permanent County).
Department affected: corporate and remote positions linked to headquarters (roles including management, program and project management, application development, engineering, design, real estate, store design, software QA, systems analysis, technical product management).
A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on August 20, 2026.
Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the WA state workforce agency.
Summary
Starbucks Corporation filed a WARN notice saying it will eliminate 224 corporate and remote positions tied to its Seattle headquarters as part of a corporate reorganization and expansion of a new corporate office in Nashville. The first separations are scheduled to begin on October 19, 2026, with the affected roles to be eliminated by November 1, 2026; about 120 of the impacted employees declined offers to relocate to the planned Nashville office. The remaining 104 positions are linked to broader organizational changes involving coffeehouse design and development across a range of corporate functions. The action follows earlier reductions this year (including separate WARN filings covering 60 and 252 employees) and is part of CEO Brian Niccol’s broader turnaround strategy as Starbucks reshapes corporate structure and reallocates roles across locations.
Starbucks Corporation disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the WA state workforce agency on August 20, 2026.
LayoffTalk has tracked 42 layoff events at Starbucks Corporation since June 2023, including 2,538 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 32 additional events known from news reporting.
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