Work pressure can have an adverse effect on an employee’s mental health and result in increased feelings of loneliness; the coronavirus outbreak is providing the greatest stress test of the impact of isolation on the workforce.
Indeed, 61% of people reported that they feel lonely, according to Cigna’s 2020 Loneliness Index, which was released before COVID-19 made its way to the U.S. Contributing factors to this feeling of loneliness include increasing use of technology, more telecommuting and the always-on work culture.
