Corporations like mindfulness, he said, because it “keeps us within the fences of the neoliberal capitalist paradigm. It’s saying, ‘It’s your problem, get with the program, fix your stress, and get back to work!’”
(I'd like to think that anyone who turned up was just told to go away and get some work-life balance, but knowing the company involved, I don't think so...)
That's because the original practices and teachings have been adulterated and heavily re-contextualized. The original context is extraordinarily hostile to Communism, Capitalism, progress, pragmatism, goals, modern society, domestic society, the economy, etc...
Pierre Turlur has an excellent criticism of this particular appropriation, "The Dharma is utterly useless" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvmgpyVcYJc
I then had a breakthrough when I was looking at the (in)famous productivity vs. wages chart. All of these efforts are nothing more than an attempt to get us to work more without paying more. Rather than seek to identify the real issues in a work place, rather than seek to change your working culture, it's much easier to sprinkle your employees with positive pop psych shit and tell them they are empowered.