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Staying Positive During Uncertain Times
Actually, to call these ‘uncertain times’ is a massive understatement.
According to the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the number of workers on company payrolls in the UK fell by 649,000 between March and June, and the PA news agency said that more than 26,000 jobs were lost at British employers in July.
On top of that, the ‘furlough crisis’ that everyone was concerned about after the Government announced it was winding down the coronavirus job retention scheme is already starting to happen. According to the Institute for Public Policy Research thinktank, “two million viable jobs will be needlessly lost” when the support scheme ends, and unemployment will be at levels “not seen since the Great Depression of the 1930s”.1
It’s all very bleak reading.
Also, let’s not forget the hundreds of thousands who are still in work but dealing with the anxiety that they could lose their jobs at any moment, usually because they know that their business is struggling and suspect redundancies are just around the corner. That might not be the reality, but a lot of employers aren’t doing anything to refute it because they don’t want to make promises they may not be able to keep. Nobody can predict the future, unless their name is Nostradamus or Mystic Meg. And even when some employers have tried to put their…
