At the end of September and start of October, 2017, a big idea blog series on the topic work and the loneliness epidemic ran in Harvard Business Review. Below are some extracts which I found particularly useful. Next time you have a team meeting, try the “Inside Scoop” exercise, an exercise in which team members are asked to share something about themselves through pictures for 5 minutes. Source : https://hbr.org/cover-story/2017/09/work-and-the-loneliness-epidemic According to a study of commuters on trains and buses, two things keep us from initiating interactions with strangers: # 1: We don’t want to break the ice, either because we fear of being rejected or because we underestimate others’ desire for social connection (“They don’t want to be bothered”). # 2: We worry that if we do engage, we won’t be able to end the interaction. The study also showed that overcoming these barriers has undeniably positive repercussions. Source : https://hbr.org/2017/09/what-do-we...