Beth Brown was assigned to a major project at work when hardship struck. First, her 6-month-old daughter fell ill with COVID-19. A few days later, her mother passed away.
Brown, director of health and well-being at a company that provides employee mental health programs and absence management services, sent a note to the senior ComPsych director who was her partner on the project, explaining she would have to miss work to care for her daughter and to make funeral arrangements. "The guilt that I felt for knowing I was going to leave her dry on my end,β she recalled.
Instead of calling to go over remaining tasks, the director reached out to ask whether Brown was OK and to tell her not to worry about the project. "In the grand scheme of things, this is not important," Brown recalled her colleague saying. "It'll be here when you get back. I'll be there when you're back.β Hearing the kind words, Brown "felt like there was a brick taken off my chest.β
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