Gustafson: Like Minds Communications Offers No-Questions-Asked Mental Health Days
Jenny Gustafson · The Working Mom Gap Nobody Talks About (It's Not the Glass Ceiling) · Jan 6, 2021 · at 17:49
Jenny Gustafson, founder of PR agency Like Minds Communications, explains her firm's internal anti-burnout policies and approach to employee mental health.
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“Give our team members mental health days, no questions asked mental health days, meaning that if one morning employee A wakes up and feels anxious or depressed, she can email me and say, I'm taking a day, and she does not have to tell me she's feeling anxious or depressed, and she does not have to send me her list of 30 things she needed to do that day. She just can take the day and take care of herself.”
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