What to do if you’re lonely, working from home.
Remote working can be isolating. Here are 10 ways to reconnect.
I love being self-employed.
I love feeling in control of my day, and having long stretches of time alone to get into flow with my work without interruptions, pointless meetings, small talk and office politics.
After years of struggling to concentrate in open-plan newspaper and magazine offices, it’s bliss. Most of the time. But no matter how productive you are working from home, it can be lonely.
Even if you’re an introvert, there comes a point when you realise you don’t want to spend all of your days in splendid isolation. Now that many of us are working from home permanently or settling into new hybrid ways of working, we’re realising that we do sometimes need other people.
We miss office banter, a casual invitation out to lunch or a drink after work. Or just seeing other people doing the same job, and learning from them. We suddenly yearn to share some industry gossip, to hear what’s going on in our field, to celebrate wins and mourn losses with people who really understand what that means.
Working from home doesn’t have to be lonely. But you do need to make a conscious effort to connect. Here’s how.
