“No charges after Axor exec’s trip”

Imagine you’re an employee at Axor, a large Montreal development company. You wake up one day earlier this month to read that your president and chairman has been arrested and jailed in Florida for drug possession. Turns out he was carrying valium and didn’t have his prescription with him. So the good news is that the arrest was the result of a silly technicality. How many of us carry our prescriptions with us when we travel? You’re sympathetic and probably supportive.

The less good news is that you now know your top executive is taking prescription drugs to reduce anxiety.

What’s he so anxious about that he’s taking valium? If it’s about business should you be anxious too? If it’s something else can he be fully focused on the business and on this drug?

So from a communication point of this little moment is interesting and potentially instructive.

As an institution when, what and how would you communicate on this with employees?  clients?  Or would you?

Tags: Ethics, Privacy