Rise of Lonely American Employees Undermines Productivity
Michael Lee Stallard
JUNE 13, 2011
Several facts recently caught my attention. In 1940, 7.7 percent of Americans lived in one-person households. By 2000, that number more than tripled to 25.8 percent. (In Manhattan, 48 percent of all households were one-person households in 2000.). Between 1985 and 2004, the number of people with whom the average American discussed “important matters dropped from three to two.
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