Eenzaamheid op het werk - onderzoek
Het gevoel van eenzaam te zijn leidt tot lagere jobprestaties en is een probleem dat organisaties dienen aan te pakken. Onderzoek, gepubliceerd in Harvard Business Review, toont de pijnlijke vicieuze cirkel waarin een ‘eenzame’ medewerker terecht komt.
Research shows that a person’s feeling of loneliness relates to lower job performance. In addition, lonely employees are perceived by their coworkers to be less approachable and less committed to the organization. This creates a painful cycle: Even though someone may desperately want to connect with others, they see their environment as threatening and tend to pull away. This has implications not only for employees, but for organizations as well: loneliness influences people’s colleagues as well as performance outcomes. Organizations need to take tackling the problem of loneliness seriously for both their employees’ sake as well as the sake of the organization itself.
