Table 5 Estimated costs of avoidable...

Table 5

Estimated costs of avoidable absenteeism from loneliness

Variable	Mean work days missed per year due to stress	Diff.	Cost^a/Employee^b	Total annual costs of avoidable absenteeism
Loneliness among workers
Lonely (score ≥43)	7.0 days	5.7 days	$1,590	$154,461,491,970.56
Not lonely (score <43)	1.3 days	5.7 days	$1,590	$154,461,491,970.56

Variable	Mean work days missed per year due to stress	Diff.	Cost^a/Employee^b	Total annual costs of avoidable absenteeism
Loneliness among workers
Lonely (score ≥43)	7.0 days	5.7 days	$1,590	$154,461,491,970.56
Not lonely (score <43)	1.3 days	5.7 days	$1,590	$154,461,491,970.56

Note(s): ^aProductivity Cost per Day: 8-h work day X $278.16 [mean private industry compensation per US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), 2019 Q3 data] (US BLS, Employer Costs for Employee Compensation, 2020). ^bTotal number of employed persons in the US (as of July 2019) = 157,288,000 individual workers (US BLS, Current Population Survey, 2020)

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