Do Companies Benefit Equally from Adopting Mindfulness Programs at their Workplace? Implications of Company Demographics

Both practitioners and academics approve of the positive effects of mindfulness programs on workplace outcomes, such as employee productivity and long-term organization performance. The practical evidence shows, however, that the extent of this positive influence varies by company. Some managers grams at their workplace, while others reported a negligible positive change or no change at all. Consideration of this evidence prompts a research question: what factors may moderate the degree of favorable effects of adopting mindfulness programs at workplace on employees’ performance? In this paper, we empirically test and show some interesting moderating effects of overall employees’ demographics, such as their age, gender, ethnicity, and education level, on this positive relationship. Our results indicate that the strength and pattern of associations between implementing mindfulness programs at workplace and job performance differ according to company demographics.