All Home Depot corporate employees will be required to complete an eight-hour shift at one of the company's retail stores every quarter.

Home Depot says it is returning to a longstanding practice of requiring everyone in the company to experience life on the retail front lines.

Employees, including senior management and remote workers, will have to complete an eight-hour shift beginning in the fourth quarter of this year, according to a memo seen by Bloomberg News.

Home Depot is a company whose fortunes rode high during the pandemic. If people couldn't get out and about or move to a new place, they would certainly fix the old one up. Sales in fiscal years ending around the end of January went from $132.1 billion in 2021 to $151.2 billion in 2022, $157.4 billion in 2023, and then $152.7 billion in 2024.

Home Depot (HD) wants its corporate employees to gain insight into the daily challenges faced by its in-store associates.

The retailer wants to sublet four of the massive distribution centers it added during rapid pandemic-driven expansion.