Natalia Emanuel ✓

@NataliaHEmanuel

Day job: Labor economist studying personnel, public policy. @NYFedResearch. PhD Harvard, Postdoc @PrincetonEcon Night job: serial quilt-maker, black belt

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Natalia Emanuel ✓@NataliaHEmanuel17 Jun

@NataliaHEmanuel @nytimes Your argument is awful. It's 2026, you cannot depend upon your workplace to also be your social life, that's super high risk in today's unstable employment market. So, you get laid off AND you lose all your social contacts? Get non work friends! 29.2K views · 1.7K likes · 49 reposts · 33 replies Open on X →

Natalia Emanuel ✓@NataliaHEmanuel17 Jun

We offer a few ideas in the Op Ed. https://t.co/Xpa5KaMZzg Tons more coming in our forthcoming book, In Person. https://t.co/F9vns2b1n2 66.7K views · 105 likes · 2 reposts · 56 replies Open on X →

Natalia Emanuel ✓@NataliaHEmanuel17 Jun

Instead, we should make connecting a priority when we’re at work. Individuals should sync up when they’ll be commuting in. Employers should make it fun, attractive, and productive to be in the office. 58.9K views · 126 likes · 8 reposts · 44 replies Open on X →

Natalia Emanuel ✓@NataliaHEmanuel17 Jun

So what are we to do? Yeah, I’m all for joining a soccer league or a sewing circle. (I just got invited to a Thursday crafting gathering and I’m so pumped!) But work takes up 33% of our waking lives. It is really hard to replace that level of contact only with 63.6K views · 137 likes · 4 reposts · 25 replies Open on X →

Natalia Emanuel ✓@NataliaHEmanuel17 Jun

To be clear, we also find that some people are protected from the negative impacts of remote work: people who live with family. Their time alone goes up less dramatically and their mental health doesn’t deteriorate as much. Who suffers most? People who don’t live with family. 67K views · 179 likes · 8 reposts · 17 replies Open on X →

Natalia Emanuel ✓@NataliaHEmanuel17 Jun

Medical research suggests that social isolation has health impacts similar to 15 cigarettes a day. Little wonder then that remote work leads to worse mental health. Our paper in Science shows that it also increases use of mental healthcare services and mental health 129.5K views · 167 likes · 11 reposts · 58 replies Open on X →

Natalia Emanuel ✓@NataliaHEmanuel17 Jun

Here’s why: The former Surgeon General warned about our epidemic of loneliness. https://t.co/sWKmo0Aldu Remote work increases time alone. It means that you don’t interact with others while at home. But it has a secondary, more pernicious effect: staying home leaves the office 94.3K views · 229 likes · 12 reposts · 31 replies Open on X →

Natalia Emanuel ✓@NataliaHEmanuel17 Jun

Now let’s get the straw man out of the way: I’m not saying we have to roll back the clock to 2019’s ways of working. Not every person needs to be in the office 5 days a week. What we need are workplaces that are full of people and foster human connections. 76.1K views · 256 likes · 5 reposts · 37 replies Open on X →

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