Career Coaches:   The society and the workplace is more social than even-digitally & paradoxically, emotional loneliness is on the rise (per various pieces of research). It’s not just social scientists who need to be worried about it (esp. with the ageing society), but leaders in the workplace should also pay attention to it. Some of their star performers may be “lonely” and sooner than later, that will tell on their health as well as work performance and likely lead to teamwork related issues. Can even be the leader…

The career-coach community, among various others, must also be more alive to signs of this amongst our clients, and we must teach ourselves how we can intervene & help. The HBR article is a very timely one.

https://hbr.org/cover-story/2017/09/work-and-the-loneliness-epidemic