Home Depot is cutting 800 corporate jobs while simultaneously mandating a 5-day return-to-office policy. The combination is deliberate: the RTO mandate creates voluntary attrition that supplements the formal layoffs, reducing the actual severance cost.
Home Depot has been one of the strongest performers in retail, with consistent revenue growth driven by the housing renovation boom. These cuts are purely structural, targeting corporate overhead that accumulated during the pandemic-era remote work expansion. The 475,000-person workforce is overwhelmingly in stores, and those roles are unaffected.