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Are Zen workplaces the foture ofCOVID survived workplaces? The purpose of this paper is to understand fUturistic Zen workplaces from the South Asian perspective. From the existing literature on the culturally rich heritage of South Asia, crucial factors like workplace ostracism, workplace belongingness, counterproductive work behavior, organizational citizenship behavior, mindfUlness, and wellbeing were chosen for the study. A systematic study of 200 research papers was carried out to understand the concepts defining Zen Workplaces of Future from 2016-2020. The study then narrowed dawn these research articles to 50 relevant research articles to arrive at the six constructs chosen for the study. A literature review has been done systematically to understand the historical and cultural background of Zen Practices in South Asia and how can these be brought to the CO VID survived fUturistic workplaces. Due to the limitation of studies in the fUturistic context of Zen Workplaces, in South Asia with the chosen set of crucial factors, the research was initiated in this direction. A conceptual framework is developed based on the insights derived from the reviewed literature. The paper studies belongingness and organizational citizenship behavior as positive organizational behavior, counterproductive work behavior and ostracism as challenges to the workplaces of the foture and mindfUlness and wellbeing as positive interventions in the building off uturistic Zen Workplaces. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]