It has been four years since my husband died unexpectedly. His untimely death sent my life into a chaos that lasted for several months. As a business owner, his death didn’t just impact me, it soundly impacted my co-workers, as well as my husband’s. He had worked for a small business for several years, and their family-like atmosphere was upended by the news of his death.
There is a lot written on the subject of bereavement, but we’re often not prepared to cope with it in our own businesses. When we prepare policies on the subject, all we generally do is create bereavement leave, granting employees a number of days off, scaled to the closeness of the relative that died, and that is generally the end of our preparation. read more »