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A 2003 study by the Grief Recovery Institute in Sherman Oaks, Calif., found that employee grieving and heartbreak costs U.S. employers $75 billion a year in lost productivity, absenteeism, and increased errors and accidents. Death of a loved one is the most costly grief incident for businesses, accounting for $37.5 billion per year in losses and about 1 in 4 employees is grieving at any given time.
Below are some resources for helping grieving employees.
RecoverfromGrief.com, 7 STAGES OF GRIEF Through the Process and Back to Life http://www.recover-from-grief.com/7-stages-of-grief.html
Grief Mourning; Grieving; Bereavement, U.S. National Library of Medicine, http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PMH0002497/
Grief expert David Kessler offers tips for supervisors, managers and executives on how to handle employee grief grief.com/grief-in-the-workplace
Grief and Loss in the Workplace, workplacegrief.org. Compiled by grief specialist Kristi Dyer, the website provides links to articles, books and other resources.
The Grief Recovery Institute’s study grief-recovery.us/Articles/The_Grief_Index_2003.pdf
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