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British employers have discovered the perfect solution to staff misery: ignore the pay, ignore the workload, but install a meditation app and hire a Chief Wellbeing Officer on £90k. We explore how corporate Britain turned employee exploitation into a mindfulness opportunity.
Every British office worker has endured it: the mandatory diversity presentation that changes absolutely nothing. We dissect this sacred workplace ceremony, from the stock photos to the action plans that never get actioned. Spoiler: everyone's just waiting for it to end.
What happens when you replace normal human speech with the impenetrable bureaucratic language of actual UK council documents? I spent a week finding out. My marriage survived, technically, though my wife has described the experience as 'an ongoing consultation process she did not consent to,' which, if I'm honest, is exactly the sort of thing I'd have said myself by day four.
Alistair Bogg attempts to survive seven days consuming only foods that haven't been taxed, shamed, or issued a stern warning by a publicly funded quango. The results are, predictably, both depressing and faintly absurd. Britain, it turns out, is running out of permissible pleasures.