This CEO's Open Letter to Her Employees on Choosing Family Over Work Goes Viral
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Most hardworking employees try their best to find the perfect work–life balance. It is not an easy task to balance between work commitments and household responsibilities. It’s even tougher when the employee is a parent.
Usually people are forced to choose either one over the other and no matter what they end up choosing, there is always some amount of guilt of missing the other. Which is probably why this boss’ open letter to her employees caught everyone’s heart.
In a Facebook post that went viral, Charity Delmo advised all her employees that, “your work can wait. I can wait”, asking them to choose their family over work.
“When the time comes that you will have to choose between attending your sons and daughters’ school activities over a client’s needs, if you have to choose between your wife or your husband’s needs over mine as your boss, — please choose them,” Delmo wrote on Facebook.
Delmo also wrote in her post that she would rather close the company than to see her employees having to miss family commitments for work obligations.
Since being posted on November 15, the post has collected over 44,000 shares and 54,000 reactions. Several Facebook users have praised Delmo for her leadership style.
“To the person who wrote this message, thank you. I hope all bosses would deeply understand that business isn’t just about money. I would be glad to be part of your team someday,” wrote one Facebook user. “Someday I’m gonna build a company that will treat its employees like this,” wrote another.
However, there are also those who have disagreed about Delmo’s post.
“I disagree. We want our employees to be good providers to their families. But saying you’d rather close the company than seeing your employees miss their kid’s school activities or unfixed misunderstanding with their husbands and wives? Good Luck! I’d rather have my employees miss their kid’s activities from time to time but guarantee them that they have a job to always go back to than search for a new one,” a comment from a Facebook user.
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