Due to the continued sales slump, Hooker Furniture's wood Office furniture sector laid off 25 workers. More than 25 laid-off workers from the company's business, warehouses and administration, and accounting for 263 of the total number of employees of 9.1 percent.

The company Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Paul Toms said: "In order to improve the efficiency and competitiveness and to ensure a profitable business, we have to be based on business volume to adjust the size of the force. By the same token, when the company expanded the size, business growth The market will also require us to increase the number of workers. "

At the same time, he said, in the foreseeable future the company will not lay off again and said: "The competitiveness requires a highly efficient team, as well as infrastructure requirements and the sales of products to keep pace." The company and the Virginia Employment Commission is in close contact and cooperation in order to ensure re-employment of laid-off workers to provide guidance and related auxiliary work.