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Chapter 7: HL box unemployment

"I am now working from home on my computer in the spare room. My husband has been furloughed. He has done lots of jobs round the house. "

"Nothing is the same. Everything is different. I started working from home on 17 March and was furloughed on 21 April. I'm now facing redundancy ... I have collected and delivered prescriptions to local people who are isolating. At first and still now (a bit), I feel I don't have a purpose or any self-belief or pride."

"Furloughed from work, daughter working from home. Schools closed. My son misses his friends, I just miss people. Worried I won't have a job to go back to. "

"I'm an unemployed single parent and can't look for work during the pandemic..."

Gateshead residents, Tyne & Wear Archives Lockdown Survey 2020, Acc. 5992