When are you coming off furlough?

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I have been on flexible furlough due to homeschooling working 2/3 of my hours.

As children are returning to school on 8th March? Has any spoken with their employer and returning to their normal hours?

I was going to answer that it will depend on your business - if you work in a gym it will be when they open, if you work in a shop it will be when they open, if you are a hairdresser it will be when they open if you work in a pub you'll be at the end of the queue.

I didn't realise you could choose to be part time and get furlough for that.
You learn something every day.

Wow Sounds very accommodating employer OP. Alas I am a key worker and had to work through all time when schools shut I have to use key worker provision or make alternate arrangements as my work have policy of not looking after dependants whilst working, any leave to home school we were told is unpaid or taken out of our holidays. I can understand furlough when the business is fully shut.

I got furloughed for thirteen weeks after the first lockdown started. I've been on flexi furlough since mid/late June

If our sales really pick up I'll probably be taken off furlough. I'd rather go back full time, bored of it now

Where I work some staff are on full furlough, some on flexible, no has any clue really when they'll come back as it's impossible to say with any certainty when the business will pick up.

From talking to people I know it would be very unusual for the employee to be deciding when their furlough ends, they are all waiting to see what happens to the economy and government rules.