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.

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