What to Expect in 2023? Commercial Flooring Insights from Engineered Floors COO James Lesslie

Commercial flooring contracting firms should plan for labor issues this year, according to Engineered Floors COO James Lesslie, who gave an outlook for the industry at the Fuse Commercial Flooring Alliance annual conference held in Memphis, Tennessee. 

"Labor is going to stay a a problem. We're not having massive problems now, but we're having more problems than we should...This summer, when things probably pick up a little bit, I think we're going to see our labor rates up....We think the two things that are going to index most over the next 10 years in our industry are going be labor and energy."