PLEASE READ... before you ask a question about 'furloughed' workers

Thanks, Steve.

It’s great for all of us that you are still at your post.

Steve Bridger is in the CIPD hermetically sealed bunker deep beneath Wimbledon high street with a years supply of toilet rolls and hand sanitizer.

Does that make Steve a Womble? All together now...
'Underground, overground, wombling free...'

The Wombles (from memory) self isolated as a group and only went out when no one else was around and kept their distance from others. An ideal set of role models :-)

Oh Jacqueline! You mean not all the residents of CIPD HQ are Wombles? I am distraught! there was I imagining the Wimbledon team as a friendly bunch of furry persons all happily beavering (sorry: "Wombling") away for we members! I thought Steve, Johanna and the other Peter C were just the Human front-office guys (Wombles normally being shy creatures, difficult to catch sight of in the open)... Oh well. Another illusion destroyed..... :-(

....But on a more serious (or even vaguely sensible) note:

I too am glad that we still have the Community being monitored and Mentored by Steve. It is much appreciated and pulling the common Covid-threads together has certainly helped make it easier to answer questions and gain focus on some of the less-clearly defined issues the new rules (and more politically "hazy" initiatives) are throwing up.

Much appreciated, Steve and all still working, whether from home or the Wimbledon Womble-den.

Oh Jacqueline! You mean not all the residents of CIPD HQ are Wombles? I am distraught! there was I imagining the Wimbledon team as a friendly bunch of furry persons all happily beavering (sorry: "Wombling") away for we members! I thought Steve, Johanna and the other Peter C were just the Human front-office guys (Wombles normally being shy creatures, difficult to catch sight of in the open)... Oh well. Another illusion destroyed..... :-(

....But on a more serious (or even vaguely sensible) note:

I too am glad that we still have the Community being monitored and Mentored by Steve. It is much appreciated and pulling the common Covid-threads together has certainly helped make it easier to answer questions and gain focus on some of the less-clearly defined issues the new rules (and more politically "hazy" initiatives) are throwing up.

Much appreciated, Steve and all still working, whether from home or the Wimbledon Womble-den.

Much appreciated, Peter.

Thread-weaving a work in progress...