i bet he will ban plastic straws to compensate

this "supercommute" word has some positive vibes to it, how about "will shittycommute" or something like that instead

Starbucks mandates that everyone be in the office 3 days a week, so does the CEO. OK, he gets to fly into the office, but it is still a very long commute, probably 2-3 hours each way, so I wouldn't envy the guy that much.

I am sure that Starbucks will find a way to offset those emissions that the Jet will release to the planet, right? If they need him so badly (and I don't doubt about his skills or his ability to deliver) they can arrange a schedule with him that will get him a few continuous days per month in a hotel in Seattle, a few days per month travelling abroad (which is part of the JD) and a few days from home. But commuting with a jet is outrageous.

So wait, is he considered remote/hybrid or he’s just a regular employee whose commuting by jet?

No remote work for thee, but remote work for me.

Starbucks should really work on making their stores remote. Maybe some sort of postal delivery system where prepared ingredients are delivered in customer homes and then they just make them at home. These could be produced by remote workers working from home and then batches shipped point-to-point even.

No mention of anything about the carbon offset Starbucks should make up for?

One wonders. If they did a search of the Seattle metropolitan area, how many candidates would they find that would have the chops to do, just as good, if not a better job than this one CEO?

I understand why you cannot just pick a random person to be a CEO. But in theory, there are probably many people who have the leadership skills and industry insight to be really good CEOs of Starbucks, and probably for a much cheaper compensation package. It's just the bureaucracy of having to somehow justify the selection of a CEO to the board, forces the company to select from a tiny pool of CEOs many of them with a checkered record. One of the many ridiculous things that we do as a society.

Seems like Chipotle provided private jets too

https://www.reddit.com/r/Chipotle/comments/10w0dyg/comment/j...

But as a CEO, he should be in a good position to change the stupid hybrid remote policy of Starbucks if he wishes so, no?

I'd bet He wont be beyond a month or so for appearance's sake. then it'll just be remote meeting and maybe a company leased house locally for a day or so to look 'in'. these type of stories do almost no followup.

Is he actually flying back and forth 3 times a week? I assume he's flying to Seattle and staying at a company owned condo for 3 days, then back home. That's how the place I work for did it when our CEO lived in Chicago.

I'm wondering how many corporate campus HQs have (or are near to) runways and how many CEOs live in private aviation communities, e.g., able to fly door-to-door.

https://www.starbucks.com/responsibility/planet/

Yeah right....

Ends disguised as means.

Is the McDonald's of coffee. Why do people go there at all

Seattle is a beautiful city. Why not just move there?

Starbucks commitment to sustainability is a total BS if their CEO commutes from home to work 1000 miles (almost) daily on a private jet. What is his carbon footprint anyway?

Boy, his Toyota Camry will be put to the test huh?

Can't way for him to present the ESG section on the quarterly earnings call. It would be better than most comedy specials on Netflix.

If only there was a way to communicate with persons not in the same room.