Stressed-out Amazon workers can now access ‘mindfulness’ training. Gee, thanks | Jessa Crispin
Anxious employees can rest in ‘AmaZen’ ‘mindful practice rooms’ – coffin-like booths where they can watch dystopian corporate wellness seminars
Amazon has recently launched its Working Well program, with services designed to improve the mental, physical and spiritual wellbeing of its employees and workers. It’s important to make the distinction between employees and workers, as Amazon relies heavily on contract and temporary laborers, who can be let go at any time and to whom they do not have to offer benefits like health insurance. But who needs healthcare when you can enter an AmaZen “mindful practice room,” one of a number of “coffin-sized booths,” in the words of Vice, that Amazon is planning to introduce at its warehouses? There you can watch a video of a baby deer leaping through a field or whatever as you try to stave off intrusive thoughts about, say, your upcoming eviction.
