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 COVID-19
   Battle T
Fatigue
Companies Find
By George O’Brien
he food truck from the Log Cabin Banquet & Meeting House pulled into the north parking lot of the PeoplesBank building in Holyoke around 2 p.m. on Oct. 15.
By 2:30, a large number of employees from the accounting and tax-planning firm
Imaginative, Fun
Ways to Help
Employees Cope with a Crisis
Meyers Brothers Kalicka had gathered to enjoy gourmet grilled cheese, tomato soup, hard cider, and some pumpkin beers, and to play a little cornhole.
The occasion? The last day of filing for those who sought extensions on their tax returns, and thus another milestone during what has been labeled by those in the accounting realm as the ‘never-ending tax season of 2020.’
But in many ways, the grilled cheese, trimmings, and camaraderie were part of what has become a multi-pronged effort at MBK to help employees cope with all the stress and strain — the battle fatigue, if you will — of what has been the most trying year anyone can remember.
And the company is certainly not alone in this mindset.
Indeed, businesses and nonprofits large and small have been addressing this matter of fatigue and helping employ- ees cope with stress in ways that range from loosened dress
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