Bereavement. We don’t like to think about it and yet, no one gets off the planet alive.
Does your company offer useful bereavement leave? Time to sit with the dying person and then time to deal with the immediate paperwork and household work? Are allowances made for the grief-fogged brain?
My mother-in-law died last week and my spouse only got 5 days to take care of everything. The rest had to come out of personal time off. And what about the people who get paid the least but still have these sort of responsibilities?
The sandwich generation is being squeezed even more by the death of their elders.
What does your company do to make things easier and not lose your investment in the employee?
