Growing numbers of US companies , including Facebook , Airbnb and General Mills , are providing more flexible bereavement policies or extending the amount of flexibility available to staff . It is a wider trend of younger employees , who are more apt to resolve work - related conflicts , urging their employers to change long - established policies . LuAnn Heinen , a VP at employer group the progressive Business Group on Health , said some progressive firms allowed employees to determine how much time they needed for bereavement and when to take it .
Growing numbers of US companies, including Facebook, Airbnb and General Mills, are providing more flexible bereavement policies or extending the amount of leave available to staff. It follows a wider trend of younger employees, who are more apt to confront work-life conflicts, urging their employers to change long-established practices. LuAnn Heinen, a VP at employer group the National Business Group on Health, said some progressive firms allowed employees to determine how much time they needed for bereavement and when to take it.