STAMFORD, CT — Meridian Global Solutions, the $47 billion logistics and enterprise-services conglomerate, announced Thursday that it has purchased a company-wide subscription to Stillwater, a mindfulness and breathwork application, to help its 14,000 employees manage the psychological burden imposed by Serenify, the mindfulness and breathwork application the company mandated for all staff in March.

The decision follows a third-quarter internal survey in which 68 percent of respondents reported elevated workplace anxiety, with the leading cited stressor being Serenify's push notifications, which remind users to pause, breathe, and "honor the present moment" at intervals the survey described, in aggregate, as "relentless."

"We heard our people," said Meridian Chief People and Flourishing Officer Dandra Voss, reading from a prepared statement at a brief all-hands webinar held during what had previously been a scheduled Serenify group-breathing block. "Their wellbeing is our north star. That is why, effective immediately, we are giving every Meridian employee access to Stillwater, which features gentler notification tones and a pastel color palette our vendor describes as 'clinically adjacent.'"

Stillwater will not replace Serenify, Voss clarified. Participation in Serenify remains a component of each employee's quarterly Whole-Self Performance Review.

"Ideally, you open Stillwater first, do a brief grounding exercise, and then you are emotionally prepared to receive your Serenify reminder to do a brief grounding exercise."

The rollout was developed in consultation with Dr. Pembrook Sallas, Senior Director of Behavioral Equilibrium Strategy at the Hartwell Center for Occupational Mindfulness Optimization in Scottsdale, Arizona, who praised Meridian's "layered-tranquility architecture" as a model for the industry.

"The evidence is clear that wellness interventions work best when employees have a wellness intervention to help them transition into the primary wellness intervention," Dr. Sallas said. "We call this the onboarding-to-calm pipeline. Meridian is really leading."

Employees reached for comment expressed reactions ranging from cautious optimism to a desire to have their phones confiscated.

"I was in the middle of a Serenify body scan when Stillwater pinged me to remind me to breathe," said one Meridian accounts-payable specialist, who asked to remain anonymous. "I took a very long walk to the parking garage and just stood there."

Meridian's IT department confirmed that both apps have been granted notification permissions and that disabling alerts for either application will flag an employee's Whole-Self dashboard as "disengaged." A Help Desk FAQ document, distributed Friday, recommends that any employee who finds the dual-app experience distressing book time in one of the company's four licensed Serenify Reflection Pods, each of which is equipped with a tablet running Stillwater.

The company has not ruled out a third application. A spokesperson confirmed that Meridian's wellness committee is "in active dialogue" with a vendor whose product is described as "a mindfulness app for people who are stressed about mindfulness apps."

Shares of Meridian Global Solutions rose 1.2 percent on the news.