I’ll chime in. From a secular Buddhist perspective, if we ended suffering in the workplace, but not in the world outside, the workplace would become a “refuge” from suffering, thus eliminating the main path toward enlightenment. This sounds very arcane, but the post-modern allergy to suffering has created all kinds of problems such as entitlement, narcissism, and withdrawal into fantasy and addiction. Suffering, in this sense, is a noble truth, as Gautama said. From this perspective, suffering is a pointing out practice that enable us to perfect the workplace, which would become a place where suffering was transmuted into virtue and good deeds.

From a Daoist perspective, the workplace should be a place of play. This entails the notion of infinite game versus the finite games we suffer.

Something to think about. Love having conversations that matter here on medium!

Thanks for the post