Amazon installs "mindfulness booths" for stressed employees

Amazon is introducing new wellness tools to its distribution centers for its often overworked employees. Specifically, one of these is called “AmaZen”, small cabins that Amazon has installed for its most stressed employees. Amazon installs mindfulness cabins for stressed employees The e-commerce giant has installed some “mindfulness” cabins or Zen cabins so that in inside, employees can relax. In them, workers can watch short videos of easy-to-follow wellness activities, including guided meditations, positive affirmations, relaxing sound scenes and more. AmaZen, also nicknamed the Mindful Practice Room, is part of a much larger project that Amazon launched on May 17 called WorkingWell. The US giant has invested more than 300 million in safety projects in 2021 so far. WorkingWell’s goal is to help prevent injuries, provide wellness services and provide quality healthcare to employees both at work and at home. , with the aim of being one of the safest workspaces in the world. Inside the cabin, in addition to the computer from which the “zen” guides are transmitted, workers have at their disposal plants, a fan for ensure good ventilation of the cabin and a dome-shaped roof and completely blue to remember the color of the sky. Leila Brown, creator of the project, said of Amazen: “With AmaZen I wanted to create a peaceful space where people could focus on their mental and emotional well-being.The ZenBooth is an interactive kiosk where you can navigate through a library of mental health and mindful practices to recharge the internal battery. ”While it seems like a rather dystopian and questionable solution, it is still an appreciable attempt by the American giant to reconnect with the employees and their well-being, even if in their eyes a total improvement of working conditions with other measures would be preferable.It is not news that for years, Amazon logistics employees around the world (not only in the United States) They have complained of having working conditions that leave much to be desired, having to sort an average of between 18,000 and 20,000 packages, in addition to having to constantly walk long corridors of logistics centers. To this is added a salary that is also quite precarious. In Spain specifically, the average salary of any Amazon warehouse employee is around 1,100 euros, although all Amazon Spain employees have private health insurance, company pension plan, life insurance and discounts on company products.