Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky talked about the loneliness that employees feel in the workplace asserting that he has a "brilliant" solution for this. Talking on a podcast, he said that bosses should find two employees who perform well together and put them on the same team.
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He said, “I often do pair people. Four years ago, we hired two creative directors. They worked together as like a duo... It worked so well that I started thinking about this notion of duos in other areas.”
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The Airbnb CEO said, “Sometimes it’s just hard for one person to be a unicorn, to be able to do everything, but if you could create duos, they could cover each other’s strengths. So giving people a shared journey to be on together I think is really important... It’s a brilliant idea.”
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Speaking on the podcast, Wharton psychologist Adam Grant said that having one friend at work is enough as it reduces loneliness.
{{/usCountry}}Speaking on the podcast, Wharton psychologist Adam Grant said that having one friend at work is enough as it reduces loneliness.
{{/usCountry}}He said, “And what really hit home for me... was the idea that I don’t always need to have a deep connection with everybody on my team. I need to have one person who I know has my back, who relies on me, as well as being someone that I can rely on. I think that we’ve designed so much of work around teams that we’ve overlooked the importance of relationships of pairs."