Full Remote Work Isn't for Everyone — Reading the 'Home Alone' Isolation Study from Both Sides of the Household

Full remote work is comfortable. But what if a mental-health cost is quietly accumulating behind that comfort? The new Science study 'Home alone' shows, with data from nearly 590,000 workers, that working from home increases isolation and worsens mental health, and that the harm concentrates among people who live alone. I have lived through full remote work both alone and in a household of five. Here I read the study's data against both versions of my life.