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How digital work creates intimate distance

My partner and I both work from home and we sit next to each other all day on laptops barely talking and I miss him even though he is right there.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical proximity without attentional presence generates a particular kind of loneliness.

Ideas that help explain it
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