💼 Business 2h ago · Illia Smoliienko

Your team needs a supportive manager, not yoga and meditation

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You might remember ZenBooths—Amazon’s contribution to corporate well-being. These were booths installed in the middle of warehouses, equipped with a fan, a potted plant, and a monitor playing meditation videos. The company called them mindful practice rooms. Employees called them despair chambers. The internet called them coffins for workers—workers who, incidentally, didn’t even have time to use the bathroom because of crushing productivity demands.



ZenBooths are, I think, a fitting metaphor

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