The Home Depot filed a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) in late January, alerting the state of Georgia that 797 employees will lose their jobs at or before the end of March. The notification indicates that layoffs will be permanent, representing a “reduction in force.” The number of locations listed as affected is one, including the operation at 2455 Paces Ferry Rd. SE in Atlanta. At the same time, the number of employees affected far outstrips the number listed for that location, which is shown as 146. Reporting by local news outlets corroborates with the WARN notification, reporting that “about 150 corporate employees” will be affected and the rest will be “remote roles.”
Employees reportedly were informed via a company-wide memo the same day the WARN report was filed, with additional notice that corporate employees who retain their jobs will be returning to the office five days per week…