This document discusses workplace stress and how meditation can help address it. It notes that stress costs U.S. businesses $300 billion per year in lost productivity. While meditation alone may not solve all stress issues, research shows it can strengthen the brain's ability to withstand stress by growing gray matter in key areas. The document advocates incorporating short daily meditation breaks into the workday, as the founder of meditation app Headspace does for its own employees, to help people better manage various stressors both at and outside of work.

1. 1% of your day to
change the other 99%

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How does work make
you feel?

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30%
47%
49%
52%
52%
55%
58%
70%
76%
Personal safety
Family health problems
Job stability
Personal health
Housing costs
Relationships
Family responsibilities
Work
Money
Top causes of stress for U.S. Adults...

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Stress at work is
an epidemic

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$550B$300B $52B
The #1 Workplace Risk,
stress costs U.S. Businesses
$300B/year
Disengagement is a top
concern for CEOs and costs
$550B per year
Depression costs U.S. Businesses
$52B in Lost Productivity,
Absenteeism
Stress Depression Disengaged

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$250,000
Annual cost of workplace stress
per 100 people

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Work and
Deadlines
Mortgage and
Money
Family, Kids,
Health and Food
What stresses us at work?

8. But we don’t give them
tools for healthy mental breaks
We give our employees healthy
food to snack on

9. Headspace is a meditation
company.

10. We create Media and
Technology to help
calm the mind.

11. How does Headspace make the
workplace happier?

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Meditation pods
& spaces
Strategically
placed trash
No meetings
@ 10am & 3pm
A meditation company that meditates. Shocking.

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Founded by a
Buddhist Monk.

14. “Headspace is the happiest
office in the world.”
GQ Magazine
August, 2016

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The happiest office in
the world, right?

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Wrong.

17. Stress InsomniaAnger
We feel feelings.

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Meditation isn’t
a cure-all.

19. Exercise doesn’t make
you strong.
Meditation doesn’t
stop stress.
Vegetables don’t make
you thin.

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So, why meditate?

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• Meditation creates larger hippocampal and
frontal volumes of gray matter 1
• Meditation strengthens the brain’s resting
state to withstand stress 2
Meditation exercises your brain to better
withstand stress.
1 2009,Dr. Arthur Toga, Department of Neurology,UCLA School of Medicine
2 2016,Dr. J. David Creswell, Biological Psychiatry, Vol 80, Issue 1, Carnegie Melon

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All it takes is ten
minutes per day.
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23. But we make meditation a
part of our work day.
Like you, we get stressed
at Headspace.

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Your employees deserve
a better break
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650 hours of content for every part of your life

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Because lots of things
make us stressed.
Not just our bosses.
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