Today, I had the sad experience of someone reporting *another* self-removal from this Earth of a coworker. In slack. At the start of my workday. This is the 5th self-removal that's been reported and talked about within my work circle. In my company we say we "care so much" about 'mental health' and 'work life balance' but 5 self deletes in 7 years that I'm AWARE of feels like that's not true. How do I find a workplace that still believes in WLB?

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I'm truly sorry for the loss of your colleague. I know you are saddened and likely angry, and I hope you and your coworkers can find peace.

Work-life balance is "important" to a company in the same way that "Safety First" is important, or benefits, or competitive compensation. The importance of these things is measured in whether people stay or leave. If a company could keep an employee with no benefits or pay, and have them around 24 hours a day, you'd better believe the company would do it. Like pay, benefits, and safety, it's ultimately up to the individual what they will accept in return for giving a large chunk of their existence to a company.

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Unless you know for sure as a fact, it is incredibly disrespectful and callous for people to assume why someone does something like that. Specially when you are making a post online.

If you are saying that work culture at Uber is responsible for that - then it needs to be a news story and not a self centered post on social media. You should be reporting it. Only instance of it I can find was in 2017. You are claiming it’s a pattern. I don’t know if you understand this, but that is an extremely serious accusation. Your company admin may reach out to FB , so be prepared

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This is not facebook. If they'll reach out to anyone, they'll reach out to the person who posted it in a WORK forum on SLACK. It could be a pattern, the only person in this list who I was close to quoted work stress as a factor in their note so it is at minimum a concern when they're reducing our therapy benefits and forcing people with mental health accommodations back into the office.

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