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Furlough ‘stemmed tide’ of poor mental health during UK lockdown, study suggests – Mirage News
Researchers say the UK government should ask employers to share out reduced hours rather than lose workers, in order to mitigate a looming mental health…
Furloughing workers, as well as reducing worker hours, has helped to stem the tide of mental health problems expected to result from the coronavirus crisis, according to a team of sociologists led by the University of Cambridge.
A new study suggests that UK workers who were furloughed or moved from full- to part-time hours during April and May had around the same risk for poor mental health as those who kept working full-time.
However, people who lost all paid work were twice as likely to fall…
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