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| PlainName:
--- Quote ---but then they never told people not to go to work only to work from home if posible --- End quote --- So what was the furlough business all about? I can't imagine they would pay half the workforce to stay off work if it was just 'work from home if possible'. |
| Simon:
--- Quote from: dunkemhigh on May 11, 2020, 03:35:50 pm --- --- Quote ---but then they never told people not to go to work only to work from home if posible --- End quote --- So what was the furlough business all about? I can't imagine they would pay half the workforce to stay off work if it was just 'work from home if possible'. --- End quote --- No, people who can work from home do so. Those tat do manufacturing or work that cannot be done at home go to work where they should have adaptions to keep people apart. But if an employer is loosing business and has no work for you they can put you on hold. The government in this case will pay 80% of your pay so you still have a job but your employer is not having to pay you but you are not left without money or made redundant. 21 where I work are furloughed. |
| SiliconWizard:
--- Quote from: Simon on May 11, 2020, 03:39:38 pm --- --- Quote from: dunkemhigh on May 11, 2020, 03:35:50 pm --- --- Quote ---but then they never told people not to go to work only to work from home if posible --- End quote --- So what was the furlough business all about? I can't imagine they would pay half the workforce to stay off work if it was just 'work from home if possible'. --- End quote --- No, people who can work from home do so. Those tat do manufacturing or work that cannot be done at home go to work where they should have adaptions to keep people apart. But if an employer is loosing business and has no work for you they can put you on hold. The government in this case will pay 80% of your pay so you still have a job but your employer is not having to pay you but you are not left without money or made redundant. --- End quote --- Same thing basically over here. The number of people who have been put on hold is pretty large. |
| Simon:
We all live in just in time economies, as soon as one cog pair has a wedge thrown in the whole mechanism grinds to a halt which is why they had to just draw a universal line under it for everyone. |
| paulca:
Vox had an interesting video on the idea here: |
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