UK Unemployment will rise as the furlough scheme gets rolled back. It was delaying the inevitable.
Meanwhile, white collar workers are better off (both time wise and by spending less £) whilst being just as productive. Why would you go back fully to the old habits? My employer has no plans to reopen the office this year. Not that the politicians get it...
Iain Duncan Smith said: 'It's outrageous that people are still being told they shouldn't go back to work. If they don't go back to work, economic Armageddon will hit Britain and with it will come swathes of unemployment leading to even more lives being lost.'
Many of us are working just as hard as ever, be it remotely Iain! Whilst I feel for anybody who is hit by unemployment, this is the "markets" doing what they are designed to do. Y'know, the economic model this Tory mob swears by...