Evidence base
Gallup, State of the Global Workplace 2024
1 in 5 Employees Worldwide Feel Lonely
What it found
Gallup's 2024 State of the Global Workplace survey finds that one in five employees worldwide report feeling lonely a lot of the previous day. Loneliness rates vary by work arrangement: 25% among fully remote employees, 21% among hybrid workers, and 16% among fully on-site staff. Employees under 35 report higher loneliness than older workers.
Why it matters for practice
This gives employers a concrete, comparative figure across work arrangements rather than a single loneliness estimate, which matters for decisions about remote and hybrid policy design. It is self-reported, single-day recall data, so it should inform rather than settle debates about causation between work arrangement and loneliness.