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Conversations about employee wellbeing in recent years have largely centered on skyrocketing employee stress—and for good reason. Recent research found that burnout among American employees has reached a six-year high. While unmanageable workloads and ongoing transformation are often blamed for the crisis, experts caution HR not to underestimate the impact of another ongoing phenomenon: the loneliness epide
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ic. Cigna research found that more than half of the U.S. workforce say they feel lonely regularly, a figure that is significantly higher for millennials and Gen Z work
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rs. “Sadly, it’s not a question of ‘if’ employees are experiencing loneliness; more likely than not,