Flooring vendor, solar firm are the latest to announce layoffs in WA state
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- Great Floors will close five Washington stores in Jan 2026, affecting 58 staff.
- Workers told to seek other openings; customer orders to be redirected elsewhere.
- Solgen Power/Purelight says it is ending Washington operations, laying off 104 employees.
Two area employers have filed layoff notices with the state of Washington affecting local workers.
In the first one, Great Floors, a subsidiary of Artisan Design Group, plans to close five stores in January, including one in Puyallup.
It stated that 58 workers would be affected, including more than 10 at its 716 S. Hill Park Drive location.
The closures include one store each in Seattle, Shoreline, Redmond and Yakima.
The company cited “economic factors” for the closures in its Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification.
“These separations will begin no earlier than January 12, 2026, and should be complete by March 13, 2026,” according to the notice.
“These separations will be permanent, and these locations are not expected to reopen, though the company is continuing operations,” it added.
The company says it has encouraged workers to apply for open positions at other locations and that “customers with pending orders at these locations will be redirected to another location to complete said orders ... .”
Great Floors has multiple locations, including in Washington, Idaho, Oregon and Montana.
Solgen Power layoffs
In the second notice, Solgen Power LLC, doing business as Purelight Power, announced layoffs totaling 104 workers as the company ends operations in Washington state.
The listed closure date for the solar-installation firm in Washington is Jan. 13. In Pierce County, the layoffs will affect 22 workers at its Fife warehouse and four at its sales office in Lakewood.
Other affected workers are sales agents in Kent, Everett and Spokane, and warehouse and office workers in Pasco.
In 2021, Solgen Power reportedly completed work on its $5.1 million solar-powered national headquarters in Pasco.
Radio station KFLD, which broadcasts in the Tri-Cities area, reported Friday that the company has faced lawsuits in several states involving sales practices, and a class action lawsuit from 2023 filed in King County Superior Court challenging employee non-compete agreements.
