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Starbucks lays off 1,100 corporate employees as coffee chain streamlines

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New Chairman and CEO Brian Niccol said the company will inform employees who are being laid off by mid-day Tuesday .

Starbucks has 16,000 corporate support employees worldwide, but that includes some employees who aren’t impacted.

Baristas in the company’s stores are not included in the layoffs.

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