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03-02-2016, 02:23 PM
A British company is giving female staff time off for period pains
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LONDON — A Bristol-based company is introducing period leave to make the workplace happier and healthier for its female staff.
See also: Period-inspired jewellery aims to de-stigmatise menstruation (http://mashable.com/2015/11/26/period-inspired-jewellery/)
Coexist, which runs spaces for business to work in, has a largely female workforce and claims to be the first UK business to introduce a "period policy"
"As a manager of staff I have seen women really suffer with their periods and I have found them doubled over in a lot of pain," Bex Baxter, one of the company's directors, told (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12179486/Company-becomes-first-in-UK-to-introduce-period-policy.html) the Press Association
"They feel guilty and ashamed for taking time off and often sit at their desks in silence **t wanting to ack**wledge it." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/period-leave-coexist/)
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LONDON — A Bristol-based company is introducing period leave to make the workplace happier and healthier for its female staff.
See also: Period-inspired jewellery aims to de-stigmatise menstruation (http://mashable.com/2015/11/26/period-inspired-jewellery/)
Coexist, which runs spaces for business to work in, has a largely female workforce and claims to be the first UK business to introduce a "period policy"
"As a manager of staff I have seen women really suffer with their periods and I have found them doubled over in a lot of pain," Bex Baxter, one of the company's directors, told (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12179486/Company-becomes-first-in-UK-to-introduce-period-policy.html) the Press Association
"They feel guilty and ashamed for taking time off and often sit at their desks in silence **t wanting to ack**wledge it." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/02/period-leave-coexist/)
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