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I'm Steve Hatherly, today with Fay Faye and Yushan.
Coming up, we celebrated the work from home revolution.
No traffic, no trousers, total freedom.
But new research is in and it's a bit unsettling.
Days without face-to-face contact are taking a real toll.
Isolation is rising, relationships are fraying, and the digital leash keeps tightening.
So what are we actually trading for that extra hour in bed in the morning?
For the past few years, working from home has been marketed as the ultimate modern lifestyle luxury.
We've all championed the dream of no more stressful morning commutes, or working in our comfortable sweatpants,
and having complete flexibility over our daily routines.
But a wave of groundbreaking studies is revealing that the walls of our home offices are closing in on us,
triggering a crisis of isolation and mental distress.
Today we're going to pull back the curtain on the WFH paradox, the work from home paradox.
We'll look at some new research that has revealed how spending days with absolutely no human contact
is driving a surge in mental health issues.
Working from home became very common, didn’t it, during the pandemic?
I remember that people were very excited about that in the very beginning.