WTF is “stress leave”?..Where do I apply for that?
Not in the private sector.
The article makes it clear that this had become a black political activist cause celebre.
That means that white people who are involved in any capacity were in imminent physical and financial (lawsuit) danger—that is why they took “stress leave”.
Their “tolerance and diversity” Pandora’s box was opened and the monsters came out looking for fresh meat.