At the Business and Institutional Furniture Manufacturers Association's annual Breakfast meeting on June 16, the final day of the NeoCon show, association president and CEO Dierdre Jimenez updated its membership on new standards being considered and other guidelines and standards being revamped.

The Quebec Furniture Manufacturers Association (QFMA) launched the first supply chain optimization program for the furniture manufacturing sector in Quebec.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals put a temporary halt to OSHA’s emergency temporary standard on COVID-19 vaccination, weekly testing and employee masking by granting an emergency motion.

Attorneys general from several states including Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Texas, Nebraska, Ohio and others have or plan to file suit challenging the Covid-19 vaccination mandates set out by President Biden in September.

SOUTHFIELD, Mich. -- Vinnie Johnson, a legendary basketball player who helped lead the Detroit Pistons to two NBA championships and later established a multi-billion dollar business, has shuttered his Michigan-based office furniture dealership. The decision was made earlier this month to close Airea Inc., which is one of the companies in Johnson’s Piston Group LLC holding company. While no reason was given for the decision, Johnson confirmed Airea’s pending closure on the company website:

Three of Michigan largest office furniture manufacturers is mandating that its workers get COVID-19 vaccination shots.

The Best of Competition 2021 award winner, Honey by DARRAN Furniture, is a stylish, highly adaptable workplace system.

The Room for Zoom pairs ROOM’s best-selling flexibly-designed single-person Focus Room with the HP Collaboration G6 27” All-In-One touchscreen pre-installed with Zoom Rooms software, and a Logitech Brio webcam.

At the same time HNI Corp. is reporting strong order trends, labor availability, supply chain challenges and input cost inflation are conspiring to create greater than expected capacity constraints. The net result, the company said, is it expects third-quarter operating income to be 25 to 35 percent below prior-year levels.