Grief in the workplace

Our colleagues die. And this experience is disruptive, unsettling, sad.

Sometimes we still work in places where our grief is disenfranchised--"Don't cry here." "Move on with your life and your job." "No more than three days off."

And sometimes we are in a workplace where grieving is recognized as a fundamental human experience that we shouldn't (or can't) compartmentalize.

One of my departmental colleagues died last month. Here's a story about what happened in my workplace. In a nutshell, we've been offered comfort.


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