The idea is to give a bonus offering, like a company would health care or mental health care.
Jeremy Johnson estimates that people spend roughly 90,000 hours at work in their lifetimes, creating a lot of stress along the way coupled with what they bring to the job from home.
He has launched a new startup company in Chattanooga targeted at providing outsourced and on-call chaplains, or what he terms “chief spiritual officers,” to businesses.
Called WorkChaplain, Johnson said it will offer someone employees can talk to at the work site.
Staff photo by Erin O. Smith / Jeremy Johnson is starting a new business called WorkChaplain, which is designed to provide businesses with people with whom their employees can talk and get spiritual care.“We provide encouragement and show them that someone cares,” said Johnson.