Starbucks will increase its return to work mandate for corporate employees to four days a week — even as CEO Brian Niccol is allowed to work remotely from his California home after getting hired last year.

However, he also offered a way out. Niccol noted that Starbucks corporate workers have the option for a "one-time voluntary exit program with a cash payment" of undisclosed value if they wish to leave the company in response to the return-to-office mandate.

Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol is doubling down on his push to return staff to the office. On Monday, CEO Brian Niccol said in a note to staff that its support partners and people man