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

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. “We need to stay connected to the core of our business,

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

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