MIT Sloan Management Review Article on Are Your Team Members Lonely?

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  • Constance N. Hadley, Mark Mortensen
  • MIT Sloan Management Review
  • 2020

Despite the prevalence of team-based collaboration in the workplace, many employees feel isolated on the job.

While loneliness is often thought of as a personal issue, it is an organizational issue as well. A lack of social connection — whether with friends, family members, or coworkers — can have serious consequences. It is associated not only with health problems,1 including heart disease, dementia, and cancer, but also with poor work performance, reduced creativity, and flawed decision-making.2 Quite simply, people who feel lonely cannot do their best work, which means that teams with lonely members are not operating at their peak levels either.

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