Ag and non-Ag responses are included, as well as later contributions from others, such as an HRnet exchange February 2000. Coping With Grief in the Workplace. Your well written and thoughtful piece dealt with a wide range of personal loss scenarios, but overlooked divorce. In divorce the marriage dies, but the spouse survives. Under the most civilized of circumstances, divorce is the death of a dream, but when that loss is accompanied by the deliberate desire of a former loved one to create as much pain and disruption as possible, the grieving process is intensified.
Death is final, but the process of divorce can drag on indefinitely.
In the workplace, it would be appropriate for co-workers and supervisors to be as sensitive to divorce as to other forms of loss. Ignoring this painful process, or sugar coating it with black humor, is not an effective way to deal with this crisis. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher and the author. Printing this electronic Web page is permitted for personal, non-commercial use as long as the author and the University of California are credited.