Remote workers | Is hybrid working destined to fail?

By Emeric Kubiak - Head of Science @AssessFirst

The loneliness experienced by some remote workers remains a very real psychological problem. However, exclusively associating loneliness with working remotely would be a misleading shortcut.

Many office-based employees felt lonely and isolated, long before the recent popularisation of remote work. Even open-plan offices, which were expected to promote communication and collaboration, surprisingly contribute to decreased face-to-face interactions.

So, loneliness is an issue regardless of the place - physical or virtual - that people find themselves working in. Teamwork can improve the quality of a person’s working life: but the structural problems within teams (e.g., team composition, interdependence between coworkers, working hours), contribute to increasing the levels of loneliness in employees.