City employees received an email Friday telling them to stay home: they were furloughed. The city came to the decision because the city’s workforce needed to be adjusted to what is essential at this time.
According to Jim Jonas, the strategic communications director for the City of Wichita, “The city is trying to be thoughtful, prudent, responsible about how we manage the work of the city.”
With Sedgwick County putting in place a stay at home order due to the Coronavirus earlier this week, it put organizations in a bind on what to do with non-essential employees who were working. The city furloughed 301 employees on Friday because they could not complete their work at home and were not essential enough to come in.
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