Feb 19, 2017
'Paralysed by grief'
Officially, the company gives staff three days of bereavement leave but he says there was never any pressure for him to return. She is the principal social worker at Singapore's Institute of Mental Health and says most organisations in Singapore will allow about three days of compassionate leave when a staff member suffers a bereavement. According to him, the standard for bereavement leave in democratic, Western cultures is between two and five days. Mr Wilson believes Facebook's bereavement leave policy is unusual and doubts it will be adopted widely. Dan Clements is the managing director of the technology executive recruitment firm, Identify, and says most people probably do not factor in bereavement leave when they are deciding whether to join a company.
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