Official figures show that the furlough scheme has worked: saving jobs and helping more than half of employees back to work already

More than half of those furloughed since May returned to work by mid-August according to data published by the Office for National Statistics. At the schemes peak in May, 30% of the workforce across the UK was furloughed. The share of the workforce furloughed fell by more than half to 11% by mid-August – and […]