Furloughing employees in Covid times

In these tough Covid-19 times, it is a constant challenge for organizations to remain in the green and to do so, one of the tough decisions they have to take is to furlough employees. One of the members on the SBB platform faced such a tough decision and they decided to furlough a number of their employees. They sought out SBB’s assistance in the matter to see if these employees who were being furloughed could be offered an alternate employment using the SBB platform. SBB offered to upload the profiles of these employees on to the platform so that they could be brought to the attention of other members on the platform to facilitate their hiring via the platform. Using the platform, this member was able to give a message to all the furloughed employees that they were trying to get them a new employment and hence the member could prevent brand erosion resulting from furloughing and they were also able to place one of the employees via the platform.