Category Archives: Grief in the Workplace
Employee Bereavement: As a Co-Worker…What Do We Say?
| Dec162019Workplace Grief A co-worker has experienced a death in the family. Your heart goes out. Here you are having to address another employee bereavement. As a person in human resources, there are parts of the job that go beyond insurance and retirement planning and personnel matters; parts of the job that seem to fit into the plain and simple category of things “all too human.” One of those parts is surely employee bereavement. You have supplied every form needed for every work related situation that can be encountered. But addressing workplace grief requires more than paperwork. For instance, what do
Read more...Making it Through the Holidays after Significant Loss: 5 Things to See
| Dec092019See What’s in Front of Us Because life has not stopped, there are still the routine activities in our lives that need attention. Though it can be hard just to buy groceries, answer the phone or show up to work, it is good to keep in mind that some of those daily activities we are forced to do may just help keep the ravages of sorrow or loneliness from paralyzing us. If there are church or civic activities we are used to, we try our best to get up and go even if we’d rather just stay put. We try
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