Key Points
Mental-health services, fertility treatments, paid menstrual leave, even pet bereavement throughout the past few years, workplace benefits have evolved to keep up with employees increasing desire for a positive work-life balance...
In the US, publishing company Hearst rolled out a divorce-benefits programme to its 12,000 employees through a partnership with SupportPay, a child-support management and payment platform for co-parents, in September 2022...
These benefits have become more possible and well timed as the pandemic spotlighted employees struggles with mental health, and, in many ways, normalised conversations about workplace stress in society, says Peter Cappelli, a professor of management at The Wharton School, and author of Our Least Important Asset: Why the Relentless Focus on Finance and Accounting is Bad for Business and Employees...
Yet as divorce support does pop up in some benefits suites, and workers become aware of the existence of these programmes, Jackson believes employees may become increasingly expectant of them..
Like many improvements in workplaces once they are in place and become part of the psychological contract, it is unlikely to see them withdrawn, he says.. Ultimately, even if they roll out slowly, divorce benefits may stand to assist a huge portion of the global workforce, as many workers do go through a separation..
