Founder's Flow: We Are Bowling Alone Again
Founder's Flow: We Are Bowling Alone Again
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Most of us love working from home. In 2024, nearly 80 percent of workers said it would make them happiest. Some would take a pay cut to keep it.
Now we are learning what it costs us.
A study published this June in Science followed more than half a million American workers from 2011 to 2024. The finding is hard to ignore. People in remote-capable jobs are now more than 70 percent more likely to go an entire day with no human contact. And they do not make it up later.
That solitude leaves a mark. The researchers tie about a third of the country's rise in mental distress to remote work. For people who live alone, the damage was nearly twice as large.
Here is the part that stays with me. The cost is quiet. It arrives slowly. When loneliness creeps in, we blame a hard season, getting older. Rarely the empty room.
We built FluidStance on a simple belief. Stillness is the enemy. The body was made to move. This research says the same about our connection to other people. Stay seated, stay silent, stay still, and you fade.
The answer is not to rewind to 2019. It is to move. On purpose.
Stand up every hour. Take the next call on your feet. Walk the block before lunch and see who you bump into.
I also keep a loose formula for protecting all of it. I share it in the full piece, along with what a Harvard researcher noticed about bowling 25 years ago.
Keep moving,
Joel
Founder, FluidStance
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