HR employee single-handedly establishes a company's mental health day policy to improve office morale, gets a private ‘thank you’ from the burnt out coworker that inspired them: ‘I realized HR could be more than just paperwork’

Wholesome work stories are few and far between. 

Most of us, dragging out feet to clock in for the day with our wilted lunch bag and coffee thermos in hand, can only think of a few moments in the workplace that have genuinely been uplifting. Despite your boss's silly team-building exercises and the pizza days, morale can remain low in the office simply because we're all getting burnt out. With only a meager 10 sick days (combined with PTO of course), we're spending most of our lives under the fluorescent lights and surviving on weak, watery break room coffee. 

Let's be real for a second—workers need a break from that. 

Nobody is meant to be cooped up all day inside of a cubicle. We were born for fresh air and wide open spaces, not spreadsheets and mandatory meetings debating which 2-ply toilet paper to use in the bathrooms. But the employees of the company in this next story, they had a hero up in the HR department who not only saw that they were getting burnt out from the workplace, but actually did something to solve it. 

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