Furlough affected people’s sense of time and relationship with work

Between March 2020 and September 2021, millions of workers furloughed under the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme lived what for many of us is a dream: being paid not to work. Through interviews, I’ve researched the impact  of this time on 35 people who were furloughed under the scheme. I found that for some, furlough …