When companies discuss policies to help employees balance work and their personal lives, maternity and paternity is the main issue that comes to mind. However, employees have many more personal needs that may require an accommodation from their employers.Mika Brzezinski has founded Know Your Value, an organization aimed at helping women to know their value in their respective workplace and using that value as leverage to request the additional support and flexible that they require due to out-of-office issues, such as divorce or postpartum depression.
See "Family Workplace Policies Beyond Maternity Leave", Hally Bondy, NBCNews , January 24, 2020