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"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/
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/
A lot of employers aren'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/
-Expanded bereavement time
-All-company mental health days
-Suspending performance reviews https://fortune.com/2020/09/27/coronavirus-mourning-grief-at-work-covid-19/
“It’s been such a year of powerlessness and misinformation, which is so destabilizing.” @DrJessIsomMDMPH on the weight, and uneven accumulation, of this year's grief for Black Americans and other workers of color https://fortune.com/2020/09/27/covid-grief-at-work-business-coronavirus-mental-health/
