Marie Gervais discusses loneliness as a health crisis: the WHO says it's as damaging as smoking 15 cigarettes daily and cuts six years off your life. In Canada, 45% of employees have no colleague they truly connect with, and 40% of young workers are at a mental-health breaking point.
It's such a big problem that the World Health Organization said it's a global epidemic that's affecting us just on the physical level, the equivalent of smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
Wow. That's just the physical. That's a detriment on our physicality.
That's right. On our physical health and cutting our lifespan down by 6 years. And so that's from the World Health. And then the Canadian Mental Health and Addictions Association put out a couple of reports and the most recent one was where 45% of people who are working now in any level of the organization feel that they have not a single person that they would connect with at work.
Wow.
And 40% of employed Canadians between the ages of 18 and 34, 40%, are at a mental health breaking point because of loneliness. That is affecting the workplace if you want to look at it from a body—
