• The Snark Urge@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I have never felt lonielier than when I am surrounded by people who can tell me what to do. Build more third places instead please.

  • RotaryKeyboard@lemmy.sdf.org
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    This article reads like some CEO association paid a tabloid journalist to write propaganda about how wonderful on-site work is. Any longer and the article would seem almost … desperate.

  • themeatbridge@lemmy.world
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    What a ridiculous article. In-person jobs exist. Plenty of employers are forcing employees to return to the office, and job seekers are abandoning them like mice off a sinking ship. If anyone, Gen Z or otherwise, wanted to work in an office, they could. Remote work from home gives employees greater flexibility and control over their own work/life balance. It is objectively better for the employee, and now that we have it, nobody wants to give it back.

    Gen Z is lonely because they have no dislosable income and we’re still reeling from a poorly managed pandemic. If wages go up, and rent comes down, people will be a lot less lonely.

  • NineMileTower@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    “for some”

    For others lonliesness would be cured by more exercise, less social media, and livable wages.

  • Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    Business Insider article, NOT a Psychology Today article. Consider the source, it’s perspective, bias, and motivations.

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    "Nearly one in four people worldwide — which translates into more than a billion people — feel very or fairly lonely, according to a recent Meta-Gallup survey of more than 140 countries.”

    “Notably, these numbers could be even higher. The survey represents approximately 77% of the world’s adults because it was not asked in the second-most populous country in the world, China.”

    https://news.gallup.com/opinion/gallup/512618/almost-quarter-world-feels-lonely.aspx

    The thing about loneliness is everybody thinks they’re the exception

  • YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldOP
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    Millennials are fighting to never go back while Gen Z is pushing hard to return. The differences in generations is really showing.