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Why Workplace Grief Policies Feel Inhumane

My grief counselor says healing happens on its own timeline but my company only gives three bereavement days and I'm supposed to be normal again by Thursday.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Institutional policies are imposing artificial timelines on natural processes that cannot be rushed or controlled.

Ideas that help explain it
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