Mindfulness | Can HR use it for better wellbeing?

On Instagram feeds, on the side of buses and on train platform billboards, many will have noticed the proliferation, over the last few years, of mindfulness adverts.

Defined as, according to mindful.org, a way in which your mind “fully attends to what’s happening, to what you’re doing, to the space you’re moving through” if you haven’t attempted it or practiced it, you’re unlikely to not have heard about it.

In fact, it’s big business. In the US alone it’s expected to be a two-billion-dollar industry by 2022.

That’s all well and good but what does it do for HR. Well, with an unexpected wellbeing crisis apparently already on us – or soon to be upon us – with rising levels of burnout, overwork and stress, mostly pandemic-sparked, Aadesh Goyal, Global CHRO at Tata Communications believes mindfulness can help.