Lowe’s announces that it will hire 46,000 seasonal employees this Spring.
With the 2015 Holiday shopping season barely concluded, Lowe’s is focused on spring, announcing plans to hire 46,000 seasonal employees for its busiest time of the year. These seasonal positions typically include cashiers, lawn and garden associates, stockers, and product assemblers. This figure is 15% higher than last year.
"To help customers during our peak season, Lowe’s is hiring about 6,000 more seasonal employees than last year," said Scott Purvis, Lowe’s vice president, human resources operations. "Seasonal positions offer flexible work hours, a 10 percent employee discount and often can be an entry point for regular part-time or full-time employment."
Home improvement stores like Lowe’s and Home Depot have been cautious about adding staff in the past years because of unpredictable shopping patterns. Last year, Lowe’s hired 30,000 seasonal workers, while Home Depot added 80,000 new positions for Spring 2015.
Spring is historically known as the home improvement season, and is the industry’s busiest time of the year. The boost to this year’s spring hiring plans is an indication that the housing market is recovering, creating new jobs, according to Yahoo. The prolonged housing slump was damaging to the bottom line for home-improvement stores as homeowners held back on big-ticket renovations. Now, most economists believe that the housing market is recovering and that the gains should continue this year.
In a separate announcement, Lowe’s also said that Jennifer L. Weber has been named the company’s chief human resources officer, effective March 1, 2016. She replaces the retiring Maureen K. Ausura.
Mooresville, NC-based Lowe’s was founded in 1946, owns more than 1,845 home improvement and hardware stores., has about 265,000 employees, and had sales of $56 billion in 2014.
