
Can Wellness Heal the Workplace?
Human resources departments try on some new perks: meditation, sound baths, energy consulting and hypnotherapy. On a rainy Thursday afternoon, in a plush pink conference room in Manhattan, a group of colleagues formed a meditation circle. As they sat in their own silence, sirens and traffic wailed below. “Bathe in the joy of truly loving yourself,” a former Tibetan Buddhist monk advised them. Over the course of an hour, the participants — co-workers at WayUp, a company that m