“With AmaZen, I wanted to create a space that’s quiet, that people could go and focus on their mental and emotional well-being,” Brown explains over footage of an employee entering what looks like a porta potty decorated with pamphlets, a computer, some sad little plants, and a tiny fan. She continues, calling the overgrown iron maiden a place to “recharge the internal battery” by checking out “a library of mental health and mindful practices.”

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As Vice reports, the ScreamKeeper was designed as part of the company’s “WorkingWell” program, which is meant to help keep the annoyingly needy company flesh-stock in good enough health to continue their work by providing them with Amazon-provided nutritional advice, “physical and mental activities, wellness exercises,” and more.

Hopefully, this initiative accomplishes what Amazon intends, and its workers are able to strive endlessly onward, mind and bodies perfectly optimized for the eternal list of tasks laid out before them. If nothing else, a semi-private booth seems like a better place for overworked employees to relieve themselves than the alternatives.

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