The furlough scheme has protected millions of jobs in the pandemic
Number of employments furloughed
Mar
2020
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
2021
Feb
0
500K
1M
2M
2M
3M
3M
4M
4M
5M
5M
6M
6M
7M
7M
8M
8M
9M
furloughed
Almost 9 million jobs were furloughed at the peak of the crisis last year
4,703,600