The Social Recession: By the Numbers
WFH is only going to make this worse. A top place people spend long amounts of time with others is work. Work is in top 2 places people make new romantic partners, marriage partners, and friends.<p>There&#x27;s nothing on the horizon to replace it as a socializing force. Even if you WFH those ~8 hours a day, 40 days of week of sitting alone can&#x27;t be made up for by socializing outside of that time, something you could already do before WFH.<p>I&#x27;m not saying you should therefore be forced to go to the office. Rather I&#x27;m just pointing out WFH will arguably make this worse, maybe not for your specific situation, but in aggregate across the population, if WFH is the new normal then we&#x27;ll need to social institutions to fix the lack of socialization opportunities that are being discarded.