You all remember that 1973 rock classic by Brownsville Station, right?

Well, Ubers bad-boy chief executive Travis Kalanick has added his own version:

Call it Meditatin in the Lactation Room.

Arianna Huffington, the journo-celeb and Uber board member whos helping the San Francisco-based ride-hailing giant lower the testosterone level of its corporate culture, has some exciting news to share:

And since Ubers headquarters dont yet have quelle horreur! a designated meditation room, the boss is getting all mindful in a lactation room. Thats right: a room where breastfeeding moms can pump breast milk for their babies.

Literally, it was an amazing moment last week when we were in the office and he said, I really need to go meditate in order to be in a place to make good decisions right now,' Huffington told a crowd this week at the iCONIC conference in New York City.And literally [he] went into a lactation room that happened to be open, because they dont have meditation rooms yet. This is part of the change coming.

In other words, not only can Uber employees look forward to having meditation rooms in the future, but they can still use the lactation rooms as they wish, unless, of course, the boss is in there meditating, which he may well be.

Literally, said Huffington, Travis returned and you could see the change in the way he was and the way he could process making decisions.

Kalanicks embrace of the meditation gospel, so to speak, should please Huffington immensely, since her own startup, Thrive Global, is all about promoting health and wellness in the workplace and beyond.

Hopefully, a mellower CEO will translate into a mellower company, as opposed to the one that earlier this week had to fire 20 employees after an internal investigation into complaints around discrimination, sexual harassment, bullying and retaliation.

I believe every company soon is going to have a meditation slash nap room, said Huffington. They are going to be as common as conference rooms.

Or, for that matter, lactation rooms.

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Uber CEO takes up meditation and guess where he does it? - The Mercury News