How to Keep Your Sense of Purpose While Working Remotely

• Working at home sounded great to many and the prospect of having no commute was seen as a welcome change (which it is).
• This initial euphoria has now turned into loneliness and missing of those we work with.
• Long-term remote work can diminish our chance to find meaning in our lives, with no sense of physical community or structure, making it hard to stay anchored.
• Many also find the extraordinary challenge of balancing one’s professional and personal lives at the same place overwhelming.

Having a physical workplace facilitates interdependence, and promotes healthy professional relationships. There is a sense of belonging, collective focus and social interaction that helps people find purpose and meaning in their lives.

Without all the things people love at their jobs, plain work suddenly looks less interesting or meaningful, as the entire context that made the mundane work attractive or tolerable has now been snatched away.