If management are idiots enough to foist something like that on their staff, particularly if they can ill-afford to, that is entirely about them and their narra

If management are idiots enough to foist something like that on their staff, particularly if they can ill-afford to, that is entirely about them and their narratives, and has nothing whatsoever to do with the efficacy of meditation, the hypedness of mindfulness, or the price of tea in China. They're the ones choosing to pay the (presumably, in your conception at least) hucksters. Who keeps hucksters in business, but the people who give them money? What if the people paid for this mindfulness training were on the level, but the culture at the hiring organization was so rotten it would never stick? How does that blame fall at meditation's feet? Or even just the sheer fact that in the West we are inculcated from the youngest ages that validation, authority, and meaning are all external? Your apparent lack of understanding of what mindfulness work actually is doesn't invalidate the concept, and your seeming biases against it probably preclude your ability to meaningfully grasp it. Just because there's a hype cycle doesn't mean there's no value in the thing being hyped, and I'm genuinely dismayed that I should have to say that aloud in a forum dedicated to technology entrepreneurship, a thing that more or less wouldn't exist — or would, at a minimum, be unrecognizable — without them. Yes, hype cycles are problematic. But they're the problem, more than the thing being hyped. Let's think more critically than that, hmm?