India Inc has invested crores in leadership retreats, mindfulness workshops, resilience boot camps, emotional intelligence seminars, wellness apps, happiness officers and motivational speakers. But how could it let the single most powerful productivity intervention, sleep, become scandalously unfashionable?
Sleep has become a luxury for the average corporate employee. Insomnia is not a health issue but a status symbol. India is manufacturing a workforce that is cognitively foggy, emotionally brittle, medically compromised and permanently exhausted.