Home Depot has ordered all of its employees, including executives, to perform eight-hour retail shifts per quarter.

Time to dirty up those loafers. Home Depot will be requiring their corporate employees – including the executives and senior management – to work one 8-hour retail shift in a store per financial quarter,

Now, all Home Depot employees are required to work one eight-hour shift every single quarter. This is regardless of their job, or whether or not they usually set foot on the sales floor.

In a recent memo to employees obtained by Bloomberg, Home Depot announced that all employees—including executives—will have to work a full eight-hour shift in a store once per quarter. This is brilliant, and how all businesses should operate when the core functions of the business differ substantially from the corporate office.

The corporate employees at Home Depot will get a first-hand experience of what it is like to work in one of the stores. The company will require all corporate employees, even senior management and remote workers, to do an 8-hour shift in a store each quarter, Bloomberg was first to report.

All Home Depot corporate employees will be required to complete an eight-hour shift at one of the company's retail stores every quarter.

Home Depot corporate employees are now required to experience some of the challenges that many store workers face everyday.