MANY REASONS HAVE been offered for the declining participation of the over-50s in the workplace. But perhaps the most important one — the fact that the modern office has become a madrassa for a cult of mindfulness — has so far been overlooked.
Hardly a week goes by without my salaried friends alerting me to a fresh atrocity. “Every Teams meeting now starts with a minute when we have to close our eyes in order to ‘visualise’ our goals for the call,” complains
