Surrounding workers with the noise, distractions, disease, and lack of privacy of an open office environment, and then telling them that — if they only practiced mindfulness for a few minutes a day, how much less stressed they'd be! — is grade A capitalist BS: the cost of mindfulness tutorials is < the perceived cost of better real estate. (And I use perceived, as I think most companies are weighing only the actual cost of the real estate; they are not considering the cost of lost productivity.)
If employers weren't stressing their employees so much, so unnecessarily, perhaps mindfulness would not be so needed?
(I write this on a 1 hour (one-way) train ride from work, for which the majority of the ride there was no available seating.)
(I will admit to not having read the entire article yet. But the above occurred to me, and felt relevant. Perhaps mindfulness works; the author seems to have gotten something from it. I never have.)