Remote Work and Mental Health: How to Stay Balanced, Connected, and Sane While Working from Home
Remote workers report significantly higher rates of loneliness, anxiety, and burnout than office-based colleagues, even when they say they prefer working from home. This is not a contradiction. Remote work removes the structural scaffolding that kept many people mentally afloat without them realising it. This article explains what the research shows about the specific psychological challenges of distributed work, loneliness, boundary collapse, visibility anxiety, and Zoom fatigue.