Article 5JJ7P Stressed-out Amazon workers can now access ‘mindfulness’ training. Gee, thanks | Jessa Crispin

Stressed-out Amazon workers can now access ‘mindfulness’ training. Gee, thanks | Jessa Crispin

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Jessa Crispin
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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.

Related: Amazon workers are rising up around the world to say: enough | Valter Sanchez, Christy Hoffman and Casper Gelderblom

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