"Loss is everywhere right now." I spent the last week processing my grief over RBG and, well, everything this year by writing this: https://fortune.com/2020/09/27/covid-grief-at-work-business-coronavirus-mental-health/">https://fortune.com/2020/09/2...

This is, as the headline puts it, a big business problem. More than half of U.S. adults now say that their mental health is worse due to the pandemic, and grief already cost >$75 billion a year in lost productivity: https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/issue-brief/the-implications-of-covid-19-for-mental-health-and-substance-use/">https://www.kff.org/coronavir...

A lot of employers aren& #39;t reckoning with these costs yet. But some are, and providing:
-Expanded bereavement time
-All-company mental health days
-Suspending performance reviews https://fortune.com/2020/09/27/coronavirus-mourning-grief-at-work-covid-19/">https://fortune.com/2020/09/2...

“It’s been such a year of powerlessness and misinformation, which is so destabilizing.” @DrJessIsomMDMPH on the weight, and uneven accumulation, of this year& #39;s grief for Black Americans and other workers of color https://fortune.com/2020/09/27/covid-grief-at-work-business-coronavirus-mental-health/">https://fortune.com/2020/09/2...