Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today, we are featuring a discussion with Erin Grau, a breast cancer survivor and co-founder of Charter, a company that focuses on the future of work. She offers tips on ways companies can codify empathy in order to create a supportive workplace for employees battling cancer.

“Businesses don’t know how to manage people anymore,” Grau says. “And on top of that, in the absence of political solutions, there’s just more pressure on companies to step up and lead in things like racial justice, support for caregivers, mental health and wellbeing.”

Aside from being the right thing to do, having such policies is a good business move, too, she says. “I felt so loyal to my company for supporting me through this moment. You can support better engagement and retention. And also doesn’t everyone want to work somewhere that cares deeply for their employees and is there for them?” Grau says. “For me, in the most devastating moment of my family’s life, having a company show up for me and support me was huge.”

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