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Feeling isolated in your cubicle? If you want to stay healthy, you may want to hit the break room, stat. According to recent research, building support networks and friendships in the workplace may help you live longer. In the study conducted by researchers in Tel Aviv, participants who reported they had little or no emotional support in the workplace were 2.4 times more likely to die over the 20-year study than those who reported stronger bonds with co-workers. Back in 1988, the researchers recruited 820 adults from a variety of work fields who underwent full health check-ups; people with mental or physical health issues were excluded at the beginning of the study. The remaining participants answered detailed questions about their jobs and interactions with peer-workers and supervisors. By 2008, when the study ended, 58 of the participants had died. Many of those people w...

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