furloughs
Paid absences from work
Furloughs are temporary leaves from work, typically unpaid.
Employers furlough workers during slow periods or budget shortfalls rather than laying them off permanently: The company furloughed three hundred employees during the pandemic.
Military personnel receive furloughs as authorized absences from duty.
Prisoners may get furloughs for brief supervised releases.
The word works as both noun and verb.
Needless duplication
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
- terminationAct of ending something
cutbacks · restructuring · jobless · displaced · outplacement · rightsizing · nonessential · surplus
redundancy
Needless duplication
- downsizingReducing workforce or scale
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- severanceTermination pay or disconnection
termination · cutbacks · restructuring · jobless · displaced · outplacement · rightsizing · nonessential · surplus · idle
time-off
Sanctioned absence from work
- sabbaticalExtended leave from work
- hiatusBreak in activity
- suspensionTemporary halt or exclusion
break · respite · liberty · rotating · mandatory · voluntary · scheduled · temporary · benefits
- unemploymentunemployment, unemployed, jobless, joblessness, unemployment rate
- HRhiring, human resources, recruiting, HR, onboarding
- federal employmentfederal jobs, federal employees, federal workers, federal workforce, government workers
- cutbackscutback, cutbacks, decrease, layoff, reduction
- wageswage, salary, pay, paycheck, income
- correctionscorrection, corrections, fix, fixing, rectification
furloughsrecalls
Remembers or withdraws products
terminations · reinstatements · firings · dismissals · reactivations
furloughsactive duty
Current military employment status
working · deployments · full-time work · on the job · assignments
furloughsactive duty
Current military employment status
deployment · active service · combat duty · tours of duty · mobilization
- furlough dayMandated unpaid absence
- furloughed workersEmployees on mandatory leave
- furlough payCompensation during mandatory leave