Ashish Kothari advises employees to ask their HR director if in-person treatment is covered and to call the Employee Assistance Program to learn what resources exist. HR leaders should test referral pathways and avoid overly rigid zero-tolerance rules.
What does it really look like if I come to my HR director and say, hey, I'm going through something and I think I need help, what does the referral process look like and what is their experience going to be? Right. Are you covering in person treatment? If yes, great. Find out what that looks like for the referral process. I often tell people to try it, right? Like if you have an employee assistance program in eap, call it and say, hey, I'm dealing with stress or I think my drinking might be too much. What kind of resources does the EAP have for me? Right. So the things that you're referring to people, I often tell leaders in HRS to try them and just see what it's like. We, we do policy reviews as part of the process and we provide input on workplace policies because so many workplace policies are written from the lens of like zero tolerance, right.
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