“ZenBooths” Coming To Amazon Facilities
Have you ever heard of a “ZenBooth”? Amazon is adding them to their warehouses. They are Amazon’s latest move is to help warehouse employees de-stress. The Amazon ZenBooth is a tiny kiosk where employees can shut themselves off from the outside and conduct “mindfulness practices”. The practices are guided by the company’s ‘AmaZen’ program. The company says the ZenBooth was invented by one of its employees and can help workers “recharge the internal battery”. But many of the company’s critics aren’t impressed, with one tweeting “a Porta-Potty would be more useful”.
The tiny booth has a place to sit as well as plants, pamphlets, a fan, and a computer that can play employee-selected videos
I generally have a poor reaction to mindfulness initiatives but the ZenBooth is particularly chilling https://t.co/Pj8REedsbm
— Sarah Jones (@onesarahjones) May 27, 2021
I have to agree this is a little odd. There are a lot of things I would rather do on a break than stand in a box. Perhaps this money could have been spent on nice break rooms? Or providing massages to employees to help them destress? Or perhaps making the environment not quite as stressful. Something tells me these won’t catch on at other employers. Workers have survived their entire careers without needing a port-a-potty-sized box to “get away” in.
If your work environment provokes the idea of your workers hiding in a cupboard to cope with the stress you put them under, perhaps consider different ideas than making the cupboard prettier.
— https://linktr.ee/kaynsd Keith Evans (@kaynSD) May 27, 2021
Also this seems vaguely #youliveinacyberpunkfuture related. https://t.co/21hOrpYeR6
Would you use a ZenBooth at work?
Hey Amazon,
— Ssaman Mardi (@SsamanMardi) May 27, 2021
The internet does not forget. #Amazen #Amazon #ZenBooth pic.twitter.com/lg8VsXrFnN
Read more about the Amazon ZenBooth here
