Affiliation:
1. St. Joseph's College, India
Abstract
The chapter provides insight on the role of employers and also self-help by the employees to ward off isolation due to remote work. Hybrid work, remote work, and telework have become part of the new normal era. Remote work has added its own measure of woes to the trail of negative effects in terms of bonding within family left as residue by the overuse of mobile phones. Isolation and in turn depression are two undisputable negative impacts of remote work. This chapter lists an array of strategies that can be inculcated by the corporate sector to minimize and help their employees overcome the ill effects of isolation. The chapter starts with the meaning and conceptual background of remote work. The strategies to overcome isolation due to remote work form the focal point of this chapter, and these strategies have been listed point wise and explained.
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