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Introduction : In December 2024, an HR email from the home-salon startup Yes Madam went viral for telling over a hundred employees that the company was "parting ways" with everyone who had admitted, in an internal survey, to feeling significant work stress. YesMadam later said the termination was staged as part of an awareness stunt for a proposed "De-Stress Leave" policy, and that no one was actually let go. Whether or not it was a stunt, the backlash it drew was real, and i