CEO Brian Niccol is cracking down on work from home, ordering Starbucks employees to return to the office four days a week or take a buyout.

Starbucks recently posted its fifth consecutive quarter of same-store sales declines. - monticellllo/Adobe Stock Starbucks is rolling back its work-from-home mandate even further, asking senior leadership employees to be in the office four times per week.

Starbucks has told its corporate staff they must work in the office for four days a week or take a payment and quit. Workers will be expected to be in the office between Monday and Thursday starting in October,