The grass is always greener on the other side?
Back in 2020. “Virgin Atlantic had 8,500 employees and Branson has asked them to take 8 weeks unpaid leave. It would cost £4.2 million to pay all of these employees £500 a week to cover this leave.
In total that’s a cost of £34 million for 8 weeks.” The implication appears to be that billionaire Richard Branson, whose net worth Forbes estimates $3.8 billion, could afford to cover this cost easily.
At the same time, Sir Richard Branson wanted a $500 million bailout for Virgin from the United Kingdom government.