Thank you for joining us for episode 510 of Live Happy Now.

This week, as we continue to look at the importance of connections, we're going to talk about

how we can combat loneliness in the workplace.

I'm your host, Paula Phelps, and today I'm joined by Greg Kettner, a speaker and workplace

happiness expert who founded the work happy movement.

Greg has been studying how loneliness at work affects us, and today he's here to share what he's learned and what we all can do to become more connected and happier in our jobs.

Let's have a listen.

Greg, welcome back to Live Happy Now.

Thanks, Paul. Thanks for having me. I'm a two-timer.

I will not tell a soul. When it comes to podcasts. Oh, my gosh. Well, you're doing some very cool work

in the space of loneliness at work. And when I saw what you were doing, I was like, gosh,

will you please come on and talk to us about this? Because I live happy we've addressed the problem

of loneliness quite a bit. And it's something that's ongoing. We're looking at it from so many

different angles. But honestly, I really hadn't thought about it from the lens of work. So how prevalent is it in the workplace? It's more than you think

studies are at least 60% and above. Really? Yeah. That's across the board, across different types

of job. Working at home, not working at home, but over 60% of the workforces feels lonely at some point

during the week. And that's not a good stat that you want to be on.

No. No, even if we were on the better side of that, like the 40%, that would still be a really

high number. Yeah. No, exactly. And it's, you know, I mean, these are studies coming

at a signal with that study. And one of the alarming things and how I kind of got into talking more about this. I was at the World Happiness Summit last year in London, a phenomenal three-day event and got to hear just some amazing speakers and just learned so, so much. But the biggest one that stood up was the surgeon general, Dr. Verveek, and studies

out now say that extreme loneliness. So, I mean, you and I have days, are like, oh, I'm working

by myself again, right? I'm a little bit lonely. Maybe I should call a friend. That's not

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