Home-improvement retailer Home Depot plans to hire more than 1,600 part-time seasonal workers to staff its 46 Colorado stores during the chain’s busy March-through-June spring period.
Kathryn Gallagher, a Home Depot spokeswoman, said that more than 800 of those jobs will be in the 25 Home Depot stores in the Denver metro area.
Nationwide, Gallagher said, Home Depot is filling more than 70,000 seasonal positions, the same number as were hired in the spring of 2011.
Spring is the biggest season for home-improvement projects as homeowners work on projects for their homes, gardens and lawns.
“It is our Christmas,” Gallagher said. The positions being filled are for 20 hours per week. Gallagher noted that half of Home Depot’s 2011 seasonal hires stayed on in permanent positions.
Hiring will begin to ramp up over the next several weeks on a market-by-market basis, based on the needs of the individual stores and as spring climates begin to approach.
Home-goods sellers are facing cautious consumer spending and a prolonged weak housing market. They have 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.
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The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Howard Pankratz: 303-954-1939 or hpankratz@denverpost.com
