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TradeBriefs Editorial From the Editor's Desk

There's only one thing office employees really need for "wellness" - Quartz
Two business professors in Paris have proposed a radical theory for improving wellness at work.
They ask: Rather than pour more money into a $50 billion dollar, still-unproven corporate wellness industry concerned with what people do in their off-hours to counteract the effects of their jobs, why not look at the pressures that make those wellness programs so attractive--or necessary--in the first place?
Instead of inviting employees to find calm at a sanctioned yoga class, or an expensive retreat, why not ease the work-related burdens that are leading to burnout, anxiety, and disease?

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