Blog
From Board Rooms to Break Rooms: Domestic Violence is in Your Workplace
If companies want to invest in their employees’ wellbeing and support their longevity and productivity at work, addressing domestic and sexual violence can be a crucial and even lifechanging or lifesaving step. For some survivors, their workplace is one of the few places they experience safety and stability. Workplaces can offer tangible and effective options to help increase an employee’s access to safety and support if they are experiencing abuse. But we can’t expect employees to ask their employer or HR team for support if we haven’t explicitly demonstrated that this is an issue we care about. Despite the prevalence of sexual and domestic violence, they continue to be issues shrouded in secrecy and shame.
Redefining my legacy
I was not building a legacy that addressed the true problems of our society, but rather a legacy built on soothing the unending symptoms of trauma. I felt complicit in life’s game of fixing the wounded, just to throw them back out to the wolves.