Technology often is called as a boon, but misuse of anything can be not less than a bane. Similar is the case of social media, the over and excessive use of the popular social networking sites have led many young professionals to face the heat of loneliness in their lives. This has been the recent study conducted by the prestigious group called Cigna. As per the reports, three out of five young working professionals (or 61 percent) of somewhere are seen under the category of feeling lonely. The reports has been claimed by 2nd annual Cigna U.S. Loneliness Index, which has been derived after studying around 10,000 adults in a survey.
The number seems to be alarming when we talk about the young working force that range from 18 to 22 years often termed as Gen Z that claimed that more than 73 percent of people somewhere are seen feeling lonely, which seems on the higher side when compared to the tally of 69% recorded last year. If we talk beyond these figures, one can find a hypothesis in our society which we all live in this modern day world. We are seen with elevated level of loneliness along with issues like disconnection claimed David Cordani the CEO of the Cigna group. He further claimed that the losing connection would manifest to the health problems showcasing up for individuals.
He further added, this is also ending up with loads of other issues like stress, depression and several heavy complex behavioral issues. Citing the root cause to this problem, he further said that the people of younger generation feel more isolated than before and perhaps due to the greater amount of tendency of using social media. The study then found out things too alarming with the excessive use of social media. Now, the big question who remains the loneliest while being on the job? Well, the answer comes in the form of people who tend to remain at the bottom rung while moving on their employment ladder.
People who have remained isolated due to job crunch seemed to have felt more isolated than any other people from the younger generation when compared to people who have worked for longer than ten years than without job at this stage. People in the entry level jobs faced the issue the most performing worse on the Cigna Loneliness index when compared to the experienced workers, or professionals remaining at the mid level management. So, if you look at the top of the ladder, more than 56 percent of people at the top are seen feeling with this tendency. Also, talking about the gender differences, 40 percent of men seemed to be in a problem when compared to 29 percent of women.