Laid off from Home Depot.

About 800 corporate roles went in January, with 797 on the Georgia notice. Our tracker holds 2 Home Depot filings for 2026 covering 882 jobs in two states, Georgia's and 85 at the Rockville Design Center in Maryland. HD Supply's 108 in La Vergne were noticed in October 2025, so they count toward 2025 even though that closure was set for early January 2026.

Home Depot said affected employees would get separation packages, transitional benefits and help finding new employment, with no amounts on record. Work stopped immediately, termination came on 31 March 2026, and packages started then. If your package comes with a release to sign, find the termination date and the date health coverage ends before you sign it.

The January 2026 cut covered roles associated with the store support center. In February, Ann-Marie Campbell said Home Depot had realigned certain store positions, adding an Operations Experience Manager, without giving a count of positions changed. Earlier rounds went both ways. In May 2008, 15 stores closed with 1,300 employees affected, and the 2009 Expo exit said no customer-facing positions in Home Depot stores would be affected.

The January 2026 memo set a five-day office schedule for corporate staff from the week of 6 April, announced with the cut. Since most of the roughly 800 roles eliminated were remote, plenty of remote corporate employees got one change or the other that month.

Our tracker counts them. Home Depot sold HD Supply to private equity firms in August 2007, and by October 2025 it was a Home Depot subsidiary again. Two rows from units HD Supply sold off after 2007 are left out of the 30 filings all-time. HD Supply's La Vergne, Tennessee, center, with 108 jobs, was consolidating into another La Vergne facility, the company said, so if you worked there, ask whether a role at the other site was offered to you.

In the state where you worked, not where the company is headquartered. Home Depot's biggest U.S. hubs are Georgia, Tennessee, Maryland, Missouri. Severance usually doesn't block you from filing, and benefits run from your filing date, so file the same week.

Yes. Unemployment insurance is funded by payroll taxes employers pay on wages, the claim never appears on credit reports or background checks, and future employers cannot see it. If the hesitation itself is the obstacle, whether filing is OK has its own article.

Your plan sets the end date rather than the law, so the separation packet is where that date actually lives, and it is often the last day of the month rather than your last day of work. After coverage ends, COBRA lets you keep the identical plan by paying the whole premium yourself, up to 102 percent of what the plan really costs, which lands as several times the payroll deduction you were used to. You get 60 days to elect, counted from the later of coverage ending or the election notice arriving, and electing reaches the coverage back to the day the old plan stopped so no gap exists. How continuation coverage works walks the timing, and whether to take it rather than a marketplace plan is a separate decision.

First pin down how much review time you actually have. If you're 40 or older, federal law gives you 21 days to consider an agreement that waives age claims, 45 in a group layoff, and a waiver signed under a shorter deadline can be invalid. If you're under 40, no federal window applies and the deadline in your packet may be real, so confirm it in writing and ask for more time if you need it. Use whatever window you have to read the release terms, especially non-disparagement and no-lawsuit clauses, and don't stall past a real deadline, because offers can be withdrawn.

Usually yes, though some states delay benefits until severance pay periods end, and lump sums are treated differently than salary continuation. Check your state's rules on our state benefit pages, and file immediately either way so your claim date is locked in.