Starbucks Lays Off 252 Corporate Employees at Seattle HQ

A state regulatory filing revealed Starbucks is laying off 252 workers across its Seattle headquarters, focusing on corporate support staff and affecting various corporate roles such as vice presidents, managers and administrative assistants. The filing follows an earlier announcement last week that Starbucks cut 61 employees in its technology department and comes amid the company’s broader moves, including transferring more than 300 positions from Seattle to a new regional office in Nashville. Starbucks has said its main office will remain in Seattle even as the Nashville office is planned to house up to 2,000 employees; the company had about 3,000 Seattle employees as of 2025. Company officials did not comment and it is unclear whether the reductions are tied directly to cost-cutting efforts under CEO Brian Niccol.

Starbucks Corporation cut 252 jobs in WA affecting its corporate support / various corporate roles (including technology previously; corporate support staff, VPs, managers, administrative assistants) team.

That is roughly 0.1% of the 383,000 people Starbucks Corporation employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 47 layoff events at Starbucks Corporation since June 2023, including 2,742 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 34 additional events known from news reporting.