Re:Isolation, anxiety, and depression in the remote workplace
by tjoff on Monday October 28, 2019 @02:07AM
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It's really common, migrant or not.
Just because you have family around doesn't mean you see them every week.
This becomes a huge problem if you don't get any social contact at work, even if you don't thrive in that environment I'd say that it is a necessity for the vast majority of people.
Even for introverts that thrive alone.
Migrants have most of the issues you talk about; they're not close to their family networks, don't particularly feel that their current location is home, and where they came from certainly isn't home either.
I did remote work from my home town for a few years, for a US company. The biggest issues for me were not being plugged in to the internal politics of the company - water-cooler conversations and occasional chats after a few drinks don't happen; and not developing a network of local engineers who moved on to other companies, somewhat limiting my career options.
I've since moved out of my home country, and work in the office. I have a different set of problems also in common with what you list, specific to migration.