[heisenbit]

I thought not much about this corporate wellbeing stuff until Corona. Then decisions my employer made started directly affecting my chances for survival. My employer was surprisingly proactive and protective very unlike the one of my wife.

This wellness spam is virtue signaling. Whether it is truly based on values becomes only visible when the boundaries are tested.

[atty]

I would agree. I was pleasantly surprised with how my company handled the pandemic. I knew going into the job that they had a reputation for treating their employees well, but I saw it first-hand with how they handled work from home, letting employees be flexible with time, letting employees take home equipment, and a million other little things. (We have a huge manufacturing footprint and quite a few place-dependent workers in other areas. I’m unsure if they are as happy as most of the work-from-home crowd, to be fair. I just don’t interact with that part of the org)

Because of how well they have treated us, I see the occasional advertisement for yoga classes or meditation sessions as a perk I’m not interested in, instead of as a symptom of a poor workplace environment. However, if I felt constantly overworked, under appreciated, and under-equipped, each one of those emails would definitely feel like a slap in the face.