The writer Henri Nouwen made an important distinction between solitude and loneliness. The former's good. The latter's hard to bear, especially at work.

So this week, the Mode/Switchers cuss-and-discuss workplace loneliness from intergenerational perspectives.

Listen while you work to our research-based conversation, sharing stories (don’t miss Emily’s “cyclone of crazy” tale) and mode/switches in mindset and behavior. And we “spell it out” when it comes to that loneliest of contemporary phenomena: hotel-ing.