{
  "id": 6579354,
  "title": "We’re talking less than ever. It’s damaging our health—and how we work",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/10/were-talking-less-than-ever-its-damaging-our-health-and-how-we-work",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-10T10:10:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fast Company",
    "slug": "fast-company",
    "url": "https://www.fastcompany.com/91600790/were-talking-less-than-ever-its-damaging-our-health-and-how-we-work-workplace-performance-trends"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "A quiet but meaningful shift is happening in how people communicate—and most organizations don’t yet recognize its health and business implications. Over the past 15 years, research shows that people are speaking hundreds of fewer words per day, resulting in a sizable decline in regular conversation. What feels incremental at the individual level adds up to something much larger: millions of…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}