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According to Bloomberg, the new hub will be operational in Starbucks’ fiscal year 2027, which will start this fall. Where exactly the office will open, the company has not yet decided, but the search for a site should be completed in the coming months. After that, hiring will begin.
The decision was part of a program to cut costs by $2 billion. Starbucks believes that working through contractors is too expensive: intermediaries add their own markup, which puts pressure on the company’s profits. Now the corporation wants to build its own technological infrastructure instead of outsourcing.
According to technology director Anand Varadarajan, the company intends to reduce dependence on external service providers and build more direct work between teams and products.
According to Investing.com, the IT realignment is going hand-in-hand with sweeping layoffs. Earlier, Starbucks announced it was moving 270 technology employees to a new office in Nashville. At the same time, the company continues layoffs: more than 2,000 corporate employees have been cut since last February, including 300 this week alone.
