Are You Taking Time Off to Help Your Employees?

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Marty: We would all love an understudy for our job. If you're putting together your automatic out of office reply and you don't have somebody you can put in there as if you needed me to assistance, get in touch with this person. And that's not just a problem for you. That's a problem for your manager. Marty: I'd love to end with concrete resources that people can really go to, whether or not they're going through something like this,. Or they have someone in their life who is or an employee or a co-worker. Is there anything that you would recommend? Absolutely.

When your child is struggling—whether it’s with anxiety, anger management, or depression—focusing on anything other than how they’re doing can be difficult to nearly impossible. Yet so many parents are straining day after day to support their children while trying to keep up at work. And so many lack enough flexibility, understanding, and paid time off from their employer to take care of everything they need to do, from finding their children a therapist to taking them to appointments.

What can mothers, managers, and leaders do to make work more manageable? The executive director of the children’s mental health advocacy group On Our Sleeves shares ideas and advice.

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Marti Bledsoe Post is the executive director of the children’s mental health advocacy group On Our Sleeves and the author of Retrofit: The Playbook for Modern Moms.

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