Starbucks employees’ two favorite benefits are Spotify and mental health support
Some of the most popular perks that Starbucks baristas care about stand out from traditional benefits.
Starbucks is facing a growing labor movement—some 150 stores have unionized across the US. The ability to collectively bargain for better benefits, like health insurance and paid time off, is one of the main issues organizers are touting. But the benefits that current Starbucks workers do like and widely use? Spotify and mental healthcare, Howard Schultz, the interim CEO of Starbucks, told the New York Times’ Andrew Ross Sorkin last week.
These less traditional perks are a way for Starbucks to recruit and retain talent in an industry that largely employs young people. They also come off as so Gen Z, younger workers who dig streaming content and are vocal about mental health.
Starbucks’s evolving perks
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