Last Friday Herman Miller officials confirmed some layoffs to a local Holland, MI radio station (WHTC).

According to Herman Miller spokesman Nick Butterfield, company officials have made several moves, including reducing cash compensation for most salaried workers by 10 percent -- and suspending of a several of what he called variable compensation programs, as well as making executive pay cuts.

This week, he said, layoffs started for some of the companies global employees. "While it is always difficult to see good people leave our business, we are thankful that through other aggressive expense management actions, we have been able to hold the impact to less than 5 percent of our total global workforce," he wrote to WHTC in an email late Friday, May 15, 2020.

WHTC estimates the number of people being laid off at more than 350 of the company's nearly 8,000 employees around the world.

Butterfield noted that all affected employees "have been provided salary continuation, mental/emotional support, and career transition services," adding that company officials have the "health of both our employees and our company top-of-mind."