Creating connected workplaces: Insights from people leaders at leading companies

Key points Workplace loneliness is an organizational issue, not just a personal one: It shapes how people show up, collaborate, and how long they stay. Structures, leadership behavior, and culture…

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From time trends to structural barriers: Six teams reexamine social isolation in the United States

Each team approached the task differently: some wrote their code from scratch, others modified code that Nick Brown shared, and all documented ambiguities and discrepancies they encountered along the way. This post summarises the most important findings from the reproduction teams

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Beyond traditional boundaries: How big team science can dramatically improve SIL research

Social isolation and loneliness (SIL) research is facing a credibility crisis, largely driven by low-quality studies, insufficient sample sizes, and an overreliance on small-scale interventions that lack replicability.

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Social isolation and loneliness: The critical need for high-quality research and evidence-based interventions

Social isolation and loneliness (SIL) have emerged as significant public health concerns, with research demonstrating their profound impact on physical and mental health outcomes.

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The present and future of social isolation and loneliness measurement

As social isolation and loneliness emerge as critical public health concerns, we face a pressing challenge: our tools for measuring these phenomena haven't kept pace with our understanding of their complexity.

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Why survey numbers might not always mean what you think they mean

We often hear claims like “15% of French citizens are lonely,” but how confident can we be in such statistics? The tools we use to measure constructs like loneliness are complex, and it turns out that much of what we think we know may be built on shaky foundations. In reality, the numbers we rely on might not fully capture what we hope they do.

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Misnomers of modern malaise: Stop calling loneliness an epidemic

he words we use to describe social issues shape both public perception and the strategies we develop to address them. This is especially true in discussions about chronic loneliness—a serious and widespread condition, but not one accurately termed an “epidemic.”

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