Small technical manufacturing company of 8 staff, Irish owned. The type the government is always bleating on about 'supporting'.
2 let go
1 on 3 day week
5 left on 10% pay cut .. so far.
All 5 now working 40% harder for 10% less and feel lucky not to be one of the ones let go. Funnily enough, we have orders but just find it very hard to compete and keep paying the bills (previously a moderately profitable company ran pretty tightly). There is currently a race to the bottom in our market where desperate companies in UK and Ireland and further afield are cutting prices to crazy levels to secure business. Our only hope is that we manage to outlast some of the rest but there are not huge reserves to draw on. The directors' homes etc are all part of personal guarantees used to give the credit. There are no 'fat cats' here.
On a personal level, my OH hasn't worked since before Christmas and was self-employed and can get basically diddly squat. It could be worse for us. We didn't use credit cards, have an old serviceable car, bust a gut to get our mortgage down to a manageable level and don't have any other credit as we always saved for everything. Some people call this 'luck' but I prefer to think of it as not getting caught up in the hype.
This is not a call for sympathy either, the OP wanted some 'evidence'.
My teaching sister, for instance, spent a good while last night telling me how she'd taken a pay cut too - turned out to be an adjustment due to a switch from bi-monthly to fortnightly pay. So maybe it's over-sensitivity but I feel there are an awful lot of people (my sister and friends) still in some kind of parallel universe. Good luck to them but I wish they'd shut up about it.