A recent survey of 1,000 people with fully remote jobs suggests that one in four people who work from home believe their social abilities have declined since switching to remote full-time. Now, these claims are self-identified, and the percentage of people reporting a decline is only 25%, 23% of whom have noticed only “somewhat” of a difference. Is this a big deal? Working from home might have little to do with the participants’ difficulty conversing. What if the real issues existed long before their workplace and home became the same place? Perhaps surveyors and armchair crusaders are looking at this all wrong.
Maybe Remote Work Isn’t the Problem
Twenty percent of the participants reported not leaving their homes more than once a week, and “3% say they rarely or never leave home for any activities,” explained Resume Builder, the company…
