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#114 Noreena Hertz: The Crisis of Loneliness

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Loneliness - What Can We Do About It?

One in five adults say that they don't have a single friend at work. Forty percent of office workers feel lonely at work. Loneliness comes not only as a toll to their own mental health and physical health, but it also has a huge business cost. People who never do anything for others die earlier than people who do help others. We can value kindness more in each other. And there's so many easy things that companies can do - from getting people to eat together once we're back in the office or ditching the open plan office.

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