Furlough is a new experience which has appeared in the past few weeks of the covid-19 adjusting world we now live in. It is when a company can keep employees on the payroll but receive a partial subsidy for their wages from the government. This has partially reduced the impact of millions of companies losing customers and clients overnight in lock down.
But being on furlough has a people price as well as economic one.
For many it is a strange limbo experience, being employed in name only but having to wait with uncertainty about how or when they return to a productive daily routine of going to work. Plus our workplaces and employment habits will have drastically changed when we do return.
One thing everyone on furlough can do is training.
So, to help people keep that edge of work readiness and to give employers a method of supporting their people Know+Do has created the Furloughed Staff Support Programme. It is a 4 week online course for groups of up to 8 people that helps them maintain and develop work readiness in skills, knowledge, attitude and routines.