Starbucks New CEO on Return to Office: ‘We’re All Adults Here’

New Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Brian Niccol thinks his employees should be wherever they need to be to get their jobs done. More often than not, he said, that place is the office.

In Niccol’s first staff address after taking the top job this month, he extolled the “power in having everybody together” but said he wouldn’t tell them what specific days to badge in at the company’s Seattle headquarters or at what time, according to a transcript of his Sept. 10 remarks obtained by Bloomberg News.

Niccol’s own work arrangement, which allows him to live in California and travel ...