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    Home Depot to hire 70K workers for spring

    ATLANTA (AP) — Home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. said Thursday that it will hire 70,000 seasonal workers for the spring season, its biggest season.

    The number is about the same as last year, company spokesman Stephen Holmes said.

    Spring is the biggest season for home improvement projects as homeowners work on projects for their homes, gardens and lawns.

    Last year, about half of the seasonal workers were hired permanently as cashiers, sales, lot and garden staffers. Home Depot employs about 300,000 workers overall.

    Home-goods sellers are facing cautious consumer spending and a prolonged weak housing market. They've had to adjust to fewer consumers making large-scale home renovations by cutting costs and improving services such as online shopping and customer service.

    But results are slowly improving. Home Depot Inc.'s net income for the third-quarter ended Oct. 30 rose 12 percent while revenue edged up 4 percent to $17.33 billion from $16.6 billion last year.

    Its shares rose 15 cents to $43.61 in premarket trading Thursday.

     

    29 comments

    • paul  •  4 mths ago
      You can apply but they wont hire you.
    • Big Lou64  •  Downers Grove, Illinois  •  4 mths ago
      Oh boy, more minimum wage jobs.
    • Bill  •  Bellemont, Arizona  •  4 mths ago
      70,000 part time seasonal jobs will help keep the utilities on for a few more months.
    • Tree_top  •  Columbia, South Carolina  •  4 mths ago
      Hiring 70,000 Seasonal workers.....Home Depo must have advance knowledge of incoming Hurricanes and possible damages. Some employers are getting around paying insurance & fringees by employing part-time employees.
    • Linda  •  Arlington, Texas  •  4 mths ago
      Wow! No benefits, no insurance and minimum wage... But it will make the unemployment numbers look artificially good this summer.
    • OOKLA  •  St Paul, Minnesota  •  4 mths ago
      and they layoff 70K in the fall
    • Dave  •  Indianapolis, Indiana  •  4 mths ago
      and lay them off Memorial Day.
      • Ken Fairbanks 4 mths ago
        Dave, you think they will let them work that long?
    • David  •  Rochester, New York  •  4 mths ago
      i demand home depot do something on a nation wide level to remove illegals from their property
      • Ken Fairbanks 4 mths ago
        I lost it here, tell me again who you are to demand anything?
    • DD Sims  •  4 mths ago
      If the economy were truly solid, there would be more full time jobs with benefits. Seasonal work and part time jobs tell the real picture of the American economy.
    • Two Cents  •  4 mths ago
      I made the mistake and clicked on this article. Should have read the word "seasonal". Now if this were someone in the mining industry, or auto, or any larger scale industrial group doing the hiring, I might have seen a reason to be optomistic.
    • paul  •  4 mths ago
      For what ,nobody building anything!
    • KIONNA  •  4 mths ago
      70,000 ILLEGAL MEXICANS!!!!
      • wjw 4 mths ago
        70000 labor ready
    • dr know  •  4 mths ago
      as the article states...just like they did last year. no news here. out of the 70,000 maybe five will be offered full time employment.
    • wjw  •  4 mths ago
      Well laddy frick'n da. Poorhouse retail jobs involved in selling a bunch of Chinese junk. This is an absolutely depressing, bad news story.
    • Americans for Justice  •  4 mths ago
      Part Time or Full time low paying non livable wage jobs!
      You also will be paying more for what you bu6y there too!
    • Robert  •  Cincinnati, Ohio  •  4 mths ago
      And big bullies like HD and Lowes are what run out the real hometown hardware store that would have that specialty part that neither on of these clows would have even heard of.
    • wjw  •  4 mths ago
      Tell me about 70k U.S. manufacturing jobs that a fortune 500 co is adding and then I'll break out the adult bev.
    • Krakabich  •  4 mths ago
      Oh,... Thank you Obama for making them do it; where would we be without you...
    • MANU  •  Los Angeles, California  •  4 mths ago
      Home Depot does not need to look far to hire the 70k new employees, all they need is to go outside their parking lots.
    • Jose on a Stick  •  4 mths ago
      Hope Bain don't buy them.
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