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The workplace is one of the last places we still show up together The Helen Clark Foundation's Social Cohesion report, released this month, makes for uncomfortable reading. Social cohesion in Aotearoa is declining across every measure — belonging, participation, trust in institutions, sense of fairness. Loneliness has risen from 1% in 2010 to 14% of people reporting it often. The community infrastructure that used to hold us together — clubs, congregations, neighbourhood netw