Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC. I'm Manuela Saragossa. In this edition, managing the death of a boss or colleague, how not to do it.

I felt sad and actually I felt a bit angry because he did so much for the company. So I think this was what they made me feel that we are disposable.

So is their best practice when it comes to bereavement in the workplace?

Many of us spend an enormous amount of our waking time with work colleagues. And I think an

organization that understands that is going to recover more than an organisation that sends out an email as

if those relationships don't exist. That's coming up here on Business Daily from the BBC.

Chances are that wherever you work, you spend a fair portion of your working day masking your

true feelings. After all, most workplaces

tend to be pretty emotionally sterile environments. But what happens when a colleague or boss dies,

when employees are grieving? How should a company or organisation respond? Well, there are good

ways of doing it. But first, how not to do it. Over to

Karina. She didn't want us to give her last name. But Karina used to work as a brand manager in the

Mexican branch of a global marketing company. It felt like a small company, actually, even though

it's a really large company. We used to go to bars after work

almost every Friday. Everybody was really close. One of the managers got sick. He was 35 years old,

and, well, we used to say that he was kind of married with the company. He was really, really dedicated.

I would say that the person that, at least in marketing,

that did the most for the company, I would say that it was him. His results were incredible.

I've seen him many days, skipping lunch. We could say that he was a bit workaholic, but at the same time, a super friendly person.

He was there to help everybody.

He was an amazing person, actually.

And he was young.

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