May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
4h 10m
English
More and more people are feeling tired and lonely at work. In analyzing the General Social Survey of 2016, we found that, compared with roughly 20 years ago, people are twice as likely to report that they are always exhausted. Close to 50% of people say they are often or always exhausted due to work. This is a shockingly high statistic—and it’s a 32% increase from two decades ago. What’s more, there is a significant correlation between work exhaustion and feeling lonely: The more people are exhausted, the lonelier they feel.
This loneliness is not a result of social isolation, as you might think, but rather is due to the emotional ...