| I respect the work, but for most of the world, this paper is absolutely useless. And the scientists don’t seem to be aware of this, because later on in the conclusion they talk about what other governments can learn from this, policy-wise. The severe flaw in this logic, unless with other governments they mean state-wise within the US, is that it only looks at US Americans, who have a very own subset of unique variables you hardly see in other parts of the world and populations that do influence the outcome. America is a pill-popping nation. https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/americans-will-spend... And the health education of the average American is rather poor, with over 60% of U.S. adults demonstrating inadequate health literacy in this study from 2025. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221133552... What surprises me here is the shortsighted conclusion. How can you conclude this: "Although a large body of research finds that workers want to work remotely, our findings suggest that workers may not realise the costs of remote work for their well-being, which may take time to accumulate. Understanding remote work’s impact on mental health is important for workers deciding where to work and for firms and governments setting remote-work policies." Rather than, obviously, we have to deal with a highly health-uneducated overall population in the US, that is overall less resilient to mental distress, tends to look for quick fixes (pill popping) rather than eliminating the factors causing the need to take pills in the first place, and that is largely unable to develop strategies on their own to deal with temporarily forced isolation and has severe problems adapting to rapidly changing external factors and the mental load they put on the individual. How can we teach the average American to be more resilient, have better health education so they can make better decisions and get them off so many pills? I know. This study examined how remote work affects isolation and mental distress. And therefore not the root cause of the underlying systemic problems. But it is annoying to see smart people who should know and see the root of the problems, rather looking for grant money than for solutions. |