This is eat sleep work repeat. I'm Bruce Dazley. I've tried to keep the

intro as a bit shorter over the last few weeks because I don't know about you I've noticed

that the chatter on podcast is sort of getting too much really so I was listening to the first

episode of I have one noted series and I think the intro before anything happened was about three minutes long

so I was keen to reduce my own pollution in that regard.

After we had Jeffrey Pfeffer on last week there were a couple of articles that I think backed up the point that

Jeffrey was making. There was one great article in the Financial Times by Sarah

O'Connor that I thought was brilliant. Sarah says, World Mental Health Day

last week brought news of a flurry of employer initiatives to combat

stress, anxiety and depression amongst their staff.

And then she says, but the subject to corporate wellness trend is troubling.

Employers have pulled off a remarkable feat of complacency, assuming they're the solution rather than part of the problem.

And I think that was the interesting thing about the Jeffrey Feffer thing for me.

Increasingly, firms like to present that they're helping to manage people's wellness,

they're focusing on making people enjoy work better and have a better experience,

but in fact they're directly responsible for it.

Probably the best illustration of

the sort of nonsense that goes on. I remember hearing someone tell me and I might have

even mentioned it on a former episode but I remember someone telling me that they

were in a meeting at their company and the meeting

leader proposed having a mindful minute at the start of the meeting.

The notion of that being that somehow that minute would delete all the stress and harm that was going to happen

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