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Could 2025 be the year that companies start tackling employee loneliness — both within and outside their office walls?
Perhaps surprisingly, the answer may be yes. “Progressive organizations,” writes the Harvard Business Review in a recent article on nine work trends to look out for this year and beyond, “will take steps in 2025 to mitigate loneliness as they would any other business risk.”
Although many may consider loneliness a well-being issue, HBR emphasizes that its impact on a company’s bottom line shouldn’t be ignored. “When employees are lonely,” they write, “their engagement levels lag and their performance