57% of Americans are grieving a recent loss, with 88% having emotional symptoms of grief, and 68% with physical symptoms of grief.
More than half of your employees are grieving
Lantern acts as your comprehensive bereavement response to equitably support your employees' experience and reduce risk.
From crafting a strong bereavement policy and providing tailored training on navigating workplace grief, to providing life planning tools and concierge services to employees experiencing loss — Lantern has got your back.
It's a critical time to integrate Lantern as a benefit.
30 work days are lost each year by each employee experiencing grief, with 20% to continue losing workdays for over a year.
58% of those grieving felt expected to recover within the first 3 months after a loss, and most (91%) felt expected to move on within 1 year.
85% of management-level decision makers indicated that decision-making ranked from "very poor" to "fair" following a grief incident.
Black and Native American death rates due to COVID-19 and traumatic deaths are disproportionately high — about twice as high as white Americans.
75% of Americans face some sort of caregiving responsibility, with 83% using sick or leave time to provide care.
Sign up for Lantern to access a suite of bereavement and life planning benefits.
Employer Benefit
We'll give you the right tools to talk about death at work.
- Navigating Workplace Grief Workshop. We’ll tailor a Workshop for HR + People Operations to create a framework for navigating workplace grief and strengthening workplace culture.
- Bereavement Policy Evaluation + Recommendation. We’ll work with you to evaluate or craft your Bereavement Leave Policy to ensure it is comprehensive and inclusive.
- On-Call Bereavement Response Concierge Service. We’ll be available to guide you through grief or loss related scenarios as they arise, and help you through them step-by-step, connecting you with situation-specific experts if needed.
Employee Benefit
We'll proactively support employees in the ways they want to be supported.
- After-Loss Concierge Service for Employees Experiencing Loss. We’ll work with any bereaved employee to take the logistical and tactical after-loss planning pieces off of their plate.
- Digital End-of-Life Planning Platform. We’ll provide employees with our step-by-step , interactive end-of-life planning platform for pre-planning and after-loss planning.
- Bereavement / Caregiving Needs Assessment + Report. We’ll assess your employees' bereavement and caregiving needs to inform your benefits strategy.
Additional Resources
We'll continue to support you through best-in-class tools and resources.
- Recommended End-of-Life Services
- Sympathy Gift Shop Access
- End-of-Life Articles + Resources
- Account Manager