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Tips to avoid
loneliness
when working
from home
Getting outside, using he COVID-19 pandemic loneliness. So, if you are feeling isolated
accelerated a shift to remote
while working remotely, what can you
the phone, and making work that was already do about it?
happening. But while people
careful use of messaging Tmay love the lack of a Get outside
IMAGE BY JUANMA HACHE/GETTY IMAGES feelings of isolation 2021 survey of 2,000 UK and US office don’t do this at home. Take a break and get
apps can stave off
If you were at work all day, you wouldn’t
commute and the freedom, they may
just sit at your desk from nine to five. So
also miss the social side of the office. A
workers by Kadence, the hybrid
out of your home office. If you live in a city
when working remotely.
or town, go to the shops, run errands, or
workplace software company, found that
get a coffee. Ideally, you should walk or
81% of workers under the age of 35 and
By Rhymer Rigby
cycle there to enjoy the combined benefit
64% of workers over 35 were concerned
of exercise and fresh air along with small
about loneliness if they were to continue
to work from home full time. Other
social interactions you may have. If you
tech-enabled distance working and
and enjoy nature for half an hour.
24 I FM MAGAZINE I April 2023 research has drawn links between live in the middle of nowhere, go outside
