Responding to the Unthinkable

Mentally Wellthy17 Feb, 2022Health

You hang up the phone in total shock. You never saw it coming. An employee?s relative has just informed you that one of your team won?t be coming back to work ? Yesterday they died by suicide. This a call you never want, or expect to receive, yet with eight Australians dying by suicide every day (and that?s pre-Covid), this is a call that many leaders across our country are needing to respond to. I was asked to provide advice on this scenario a few months back when an HR contact found herself responding to the suicide death of an employee whose position had been made redundant some months earlier.