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As with many furniture companies during the worldwide recession, a Norfolk company has been forced to make lay offs to assist in keeping their company going and slash costs.

This Norfolk company, based in Attleborough started by sending letters to their staff to see who would be prepared to take voluntary redundancy, not something any company likes doing.
“We currently employ 142 people, regrettably we still need to reduce our staffing levels across the business by eight.”

“If anything, we’ve really just got this week to see if anyone comes forward, and after that we’re going to have another look,” he said.

In total, they have made 43 members of staff redundant from its headquarters last year with many regrets of having to downsize their workforce. This was needed though to prepare to ride out the credit crunch.

As well as this the company has set a 4 day week to reduce the amount of money spent on salaries with other money invested in new designs.

Mr Seaman from their management spoke saying they are also looking for many other areas to cut costs to keep the company going. The more costs which are cut elsewhere, the more jobs will be saved although they are optimistic for the future.

In total they have spent three months looking at ways to reduce these costs where possible.