The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less

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Companies are trying to redefine our understanding of what happiness means to us, instead putting us on a treadmill with a ‘happiness’ carrot in front of it, and all that you have to do is to not fall off the fucking thing while they increase the speed. And when (not if) you will stumble or fall, that “we’re a family here” thing you saw in your onboarding doc? Don’t question anything. Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Any company can make it work, if only they wanted to.

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