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How do you differentiate between a business using it to "improve their bottom line" vs a business that is trying to provide their employees with some increased
by Erlich_Bachman 9y ago
How do you differentiate between a business using it to "improve their bottom line" vs a business that is trying to provide their employees with some increased life quality? Is everything a business does evil just because they are a business?
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoIs everything a business does evil just because they are a business? If a business really wanted to deal with the excess stress in their organisation then they would start with the causes rather than trying to treat the symptoms.
- Erlich_Bachman 9y agoAs someone who has done extensive mindfulness training and recommends it to others, I would actually argue that lack of mindfulness, of other emotional and psychological skills is the source of the problem many times. If you look at foxconn or some other slave-ish companies in China then yes, perhaps conditions are really harsh. But for most western companies it is not the case. People are not stressed because the life is somehow very complicated - they are stressed because in our culture they are not given proper tools in the childhood: very few families have this in their ethos, and public education is completely lacking in this regard.
- tonyedgecombe 9y agoI don't think so, that sounds like blaming the victim, it's more to do with long work hours, office politics, poor workstation ergonomics, open plan offices, dysfunctional management, long commutes, etc.