Loneliness at Work Place
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.” Carl Jung One of the clients I was coaching recently is a senior leader (COO) at one of the big consulting companies. While the topic brought up for the coaching session was something else, to begin with, one key theme that kept coming up was how difficult it is to find someone to trust at the workplace to be able to share and consult openly. I looked up some research and it indicates that more than 60% of people report they feel lonely at the workplace. The epidemic of loneliness at workplaces is common across geographies and it gets worse as one goes up the hierarchy. And it is only growing… The effect of long-term loneliness includes an increase in stress, anxiety with physical manifestations of blood pressure, obesity, and its effect is found to be equivalent to smoking 15 cigarett