Health benefits are expensive. I was furloughed twice despite being a FT employee and not contract. The first furlough was long. Only a handful of us were able to come back to a project after a few weeks but much of the team took months to come back. We were given no warning that any project was about to end. The weeks it would end, charts would suddenly be low,and then we were told to log off for the day and wait to hear more info. Then it could be a few days before we had instructions and to go through new training for the next projects guidelines. I did not have the opportunity to earn full hours or a full pay check for weeks which is not ideal and impossible for many people with their bills. They dihd changing up projects often after the end of the year. Expecting 95% QA is rough. Some projects would release you from them if your QA dropped below 95%. It was unclear if you still had a job if that happened and just wait for another project or if you were let go. After the major furloughing at the beginning of the year many people left CSI, including team leads and upper management. So I have no clue about the atmosphere now.
