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Article: How to manage in times of grief: a study of the recent tragedy at the co-op shows need for quick action.(business toolkit)(Employee Assistance Program)
- Article from:
- Bellingham Business Journal
- Article date:
- September 1, 2008
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Employees spend enormous amounts of time with each other.
They often joke with one another to get through the day. They make plans to barbecue over the weekend. They go out to lunch together. Over countless deadlines and terrible cups of coffee, they become friends.
Then one day tragedy strikes. Tragedy brings loss, which triggers grief and it doesn't matter what form the tragedy takes, tragic circumstances isolate and devastate.
Sandy Levey-Lunden, a Bellingham-based grief and loss counselor who has worked across the country and internationally for more than 28 years, said businesses are equipped to handle the most volatile of situations in ...