When an employee is going through a divorce, emotional, logistical and legal matters weigh so heavily on them that work can quickly fall to the bottom of the pile.
As divorce rates continue to creep up, the impact on work will be hard for employers to ignore. An employee will lose 40% of their productivity for the six months before their divorce and up to five years after it, due to factors like absences for court and legal appointments, along with the impact from emotional distress, according to a report by the Nashville Business Journal. For some, the experience is so overwhelming that 10% will actually quit their job due to divorce.
