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How Divorce Effects The Bottom Line In Your Company


Let us help you see how the effects of divorce in the workplace are affecting your businesses bottom line. Employees struggling through a divorce and the aftermath that continues for years are often missing work, have poor performance, and lower productivity than other employees.

Even though these employees are at work, they’re often absent mentally, emotionally and creatively.

Harvard Business Review estimated that presenteeism costs American business $150 billion annually. A distracted employee is a significant cost to a business being able to reach its goals, to make informed decisions, and have troubleshooting ideas that affect the bottom line.


Divorce issues often stretching into months and years.

The financial toll it takes on businesses’ as the Minneapolis-based Life Innovations study titled “Marriage and Family Wellness: Corporate America’s Business?” calculated that stress from relationship-related issues costs companies $300 billion a year. This study also found that employees lose more than 168 hours of work time in the year following a divorce, which is reported to be more than 8% of their actual time at work.

A study from the Grief Recovery Institute found that workplace costs from serious emotional distress are $75 billion a year. It’s not just divorce, but custody issues, child protection issues, and the list goes on.

The family court also causes elevated stress and anxiety.

These employees have health issues and increased healthcare costs for the employee and the company. Parents are being diagnosed with Post Traumatic Distress Disorder (PTSD) from family court. PARENTS ARE BEING TRAUMATIZED BY THE SYSTEM!

Stop office gossip so work can be focused on.

Employees talk about their issues to relieve stress and they may confide in a co-worker
Confiding in a coach/counselor will be more effective. A health and wellness program that offers therapy can be helpful. A licensed therapist or counselor do not understand what is really happening in the family court. Health insurance can pay for these appointments, but a lot of therapy sessions will be needed. Therefore, Work Wellness only has coaches that have been in the family court system for 10 years or more.




Phone appointments verses office appointments.

Appointments that can be done over the phone instead of going to an office will also cut down employee absenteeism. Sometimes an employee can even take a late lunch and talk with a coach/counselor. For office appointments, the employee will need to have an hour for the session plus driving time. Most employees will take a half a day off work to since lunch will be an hour after the session or the work day will end an hour after the session so why bother going to work.

Employers can help their employees easily.

Offering employees support with a coach/counselor who has been through the family court system. Since insurance will not pay for these services, offering to pay for a few session will help the employee find the coach/counselor that is the right fit for them. They will have to continue to pay for services out of their own pocket. Lawyer bills are high and employees may not be able to pay for these services so a company may want to extend how many appointments they will pay for.





Provide a seminar on family court.

A lot of people do not really understand what goes on in family court. Other employees may be judging a coworker who is trying to figure out what exactly is going on in family court. Providing a seminar to employees will help cut down the gossip as well.

When an employee doesn’t get help, their work performance will suffer.

Work Wellness networks with other parents and agencies that deal with family court, so we stay on top of what is happening in the family courts. We can offer your employees consultations, courses, and other services that can help with other needs they may have.

We make helping your employees easy.

We will email you posters that you can have printed off and placed throughout the work environment. You can place these posters in a company newsletter or email explaining that help is out there.
If you want to reimburse employees for services.






Let employees know services are available or that you are willing to cover a certain amount of appointments. Employees can submit an invoice to your human resource department or payroll for reimbursement.  Call Work Wellness at 505-933-5029 for more information.