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Home Depot Adds 6,000 Canadian Workers for Spring Season

Paul Ausick

Published: February 8, 2016 9:15 am

Last Updated: January 13, 2020 1:29 pm

The spring gardening and home fix-up season mirrors for home improvement stores the December holiday season for most other retailers. To underline the importance of the spring season, Home Depot Inc. (NYSE: HD) said Monday that it has begun hiring what eventually will be 6,000 seasonal employees at its 182 Canada stores to get the company through the spring selling season. The company announced last week that it plans to hire 80,000 associates for its U.S. stores.

Home Depot operates nearly 2,000 stores in the United States, so on average the company plans to hire about 40 permanent part-time and seasonal employees per store. But that’s an average, and some states and stores are not slated to gain any new employees, according to a map at the company’s website. The number of U.S. seasonal employees the company plans to hire is equal to its hiring last year.

The 6,000 added workers in Canada are up from 5,500 that the company hired last year. The company said it has scheduled more than 400 career events across Canada for people interested in working for the company. Home Depot employs about 28,000 associates in its Canadian stores.

Also last week, Home Depot competitor Lowe’s Companies Inc. (NYSE: LOW) announced that it had reached an agreement to acquire Canadian home improvement company Rona for $2.3 billion in an all-cash transaction.