Support Your Employees With Clinically Sound, Personalized Text Support
Supporting employees who are grieving or experiencing other life challenges strengthens well-being, protects workplace productivity, decreases workplace accidents, reduces absenteeism, builds a more connected workplace culture, and differentiates your company in today’s competitive talent landscape.
Download the info sheetNearly half of working-age Americans are grieving a recent loss. These grieving employees experience reduced productivity and increased absenteeism, costing US businesses over $113 billion annually. With unsupported employees 56% more likely to leave their company, helping them through their grief isn’t just compassionate care—it’s a strategic investment in your organization’s workforce, efficiency, and bottom line.
Tips for employees and managers too
Help Texts delivers clinically sound, year-long grief and mental health support via text message—tailored based on cause of death, age, relationship, life challenges and more. We also send texts to colleagues and managers who want to help but may not be sure how. Texts include expert tips for navigating grief at work and are carefully crafted to provide hope, comfort and practical support.
You can weave in custom texts for your organization too, with new bereavement or HR benefits and more.
How We Support Your Workplace
By partnering with Help Texts, your organization can provide expert care to every bereaved employee in a way that’s credible, consistent, and cost-effective. It seamlessly complements your EAP services and ensures no employee falls through the cracks.
Strengthen employee well-being
- Share curated, expert wisdom throughout the first year of grief
- Honor important dates and milestones
- Reach employees in 27 languages with culturally sensitive support
- Provide workplace-specific support for navigating grief at work
Protect workplace productivity
- Empower employees to thrive professionally by supporting them personally during difficult times
- Address “grief brain” that impacts concentration, memory, and task completion
- Reduce a leading cause of absenteeism, which costs employers nearly $226 billion annually
- Prevent workplace errors and accidents resulting from grief-related distraction
Maximize benefits investment
- Complement existing EAP services with continuous support
- Extend care beyond limited counseling and bereavement leave without increasing lost time
- Provide consistent support without expanding headcount
- Survey employees and gather valuable program data through low-friction feedback tools
Empower leaders and teams
- Train managers through specialized texts with guidance for supporting grieving employees
- Equip colleagues with practical tools to create a supportive work environment
- Foster a workplace culture of compassion and connection
- Build loyalty and strengthen your reputation as an employer of choice
Support for all of life's challenges
"One cannot hire a hand. The whole person comes with it." —Peter Drucker, founder of modern management theory
Forward-thinking companies recognize that their most valuable assets, their employees and reputation, are strengthened through scientifically credible, personalized, and robust well-being programs. When employees receive support through life’s challenges, they bring their best selves to work. And their employers consistently see measurable improvements in productivity, retention, customer service, and team collaboration. Help Texts provides comprehensive support across multiple life transitions:
- Grief support for loss of loved ones
- Pregnancy loss support tailored to miscarriage, stillbirth, and medical termination
- Pet loss support for the often-overlooked grief of losing animal companions
- Caregiver support for employees caring for loved ones with terminal diagnoses
- Mental health and well-being support for depression, anxiety, loneliness, burnout & fatigue, suicidal thoughts, and more
Help Texts delivers this comprehensive support exactly when employees need it most—during life’s most challenging moments—with exceptional engagement rates and unlimited scalability, making it one of the most cost-effective wellness investments available to employers today.
Navigating life’s challenges can be hard.
Getting support doesn’t have to be.
Breaking through every barrier to grief support
Sometimes, people question whether text messages can really make a difference in something as profound as grief. But the research is clear: text-based support cuts through traditional barriers to care—from geographic distance to language, stigma, or comfort level with technology or traditional therapy—making expert grief support accessible to everyone. With no waitlist.
Support available in
27 languagesof subscribers say Help Texts helped them feel more supported
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