"To extend our industry-leading position, we must position the company to move faster and stay even more closely connected to our customers and frontline associates,"
"In-person engagement enables more meaningful support for store and field associates, drives results and reinforces our people-centric culture and inverted pyramid."
"The headlines in 2025 were filled with stories of the 'massive return to office,' but the data tells a different story,"
Home Depot ordered all corporate employees to work in-office Monday through Friday beginning April 6 and also announced an 800-person layoff. Several other large firms including Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, UPS, Tesla, Goldman Sachs, AT&T, Boeing, and the Washington Post have reinstated mandatory in-person schedules. Company leaders cite improved productivity, creativity, faster decision-making, closer customer connection, and stronger support for frontline associates as reasons. Home Depot's memo emphasized that in-person engagement enables more meaningful support, drives results, and reinforces a people-centric culture and inverted pyramid. Workforce flexibility experts note that recurring return-to-office headlines obscure data showing hybrid work remains prevalent and entrenched.
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